Word: channelized
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...vineyards surrounding his ancient château on the Gironde and mourned the lost days when fine wines were treated with the respect they deserved. Those were the days when the vineyard patrons of the sun-kissed Médoc district personally carried their finest Bordeaux vintages across the Channel and sold them at a Thames quayside to discriminating London vintners. "A good wine," sad Bertrand, "should have personal attention. It is a patron's duty." As spring's tender new shoots peeped from the wintry canes of his vines, Bertrand's plans were made...
...Communist moves in Austria and Yugoslavia meant a considerable retreat from the old Soviet formula of swallowing up satellites and building an ever-expanding Communist front, a long way from 1948, when it was said that the Red army needed only shoes to march to the English Channel...
...know, however," Franck said, "that we can expect a lot of trouble from ice. Two of the lakes on the route are usually ice-bound the year round." Tyrell crossed them by waiting for a favorable wind to clear a channel along one shore, Franck added...
...young pimps like Minot Jelke; where 22-year-old boys slip,cyanide into their parents' champagne; where middle-aged mothers and grandmothers moon like adolescents over a toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their and our records in the above...
...Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad and Berlin. Zhukov has always faithfully obeyed party orders, but he also seems to have stayed out of power politics and cliques. From the point of view of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (of which he is a full member), Zhukov was the perfect channel for a direct approach to President Eisenhower. Around the world last week, people asked: Could the friendship of two old soldiers provide the basis for a genuine easing of tensions between the U.S. and Russia...