Word: channelized
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...June 5, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote, "our little camp [at Portsmouth, England] was shaking and shuddering under a wind of almost hurricane proportions." The worst June storm in 20 years raged over the Channel; already the invasion had been postponed a day, and now there seemed no choice but to delay for another fortnight, at least, until the tides were right again. Heavyhearted, Ike splashed through the rain to a fateful 4 a.m. meeting with his meteorologists and top commanders. An agonizing choice was posed by the latest forecast: a brief break in the storm, perhaps 24 hours...
Tensely, the assembled Allied command looked to Ike for decision. In such weather, airborne and amphibious landings could be disastrous; the storm, resuming, might isolate the leading elements cross-Channel. On the other hand, a fortnight of delay would demoralize 2,000,000 pent-up troops, tangle intricate plans, and perhaps tip off the Germans. The conference lapsed into silence while Ike briefly pondered the dangers. Then he looked up, his face brightening. "Well," he said...
...becoming a commercial FM station should the news FCC ruling make it reduce present operations. Commission regulations, however, would call for 12 months a year operation under this plan, and McElroy was not certain whether this was possible. He also ruled out the prospect of obtaining an AM broadcast channel for the station or the addition of television facilities...
...Great Britain, TV's most spectacular role has been under water: in 1951, a camera ringed with searchlights was lowered 285 feet to the rocky bottom of the English Channel to find and identify the lost submarine Affray (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). Off the coast of Elba, Royal Navy TV cameras have plunged for the remains of the Comet jetliner that crashed into the sea last January...
...abdicated in favor of law & order, gets evidence against his old friends with the latest thing in eavesdropping. Not content with keyhole-squint and transom-peer, with tape recorder or even wiretap. Flagg triumphantly secretes in the walls of the villain's office a complete closed-channel television transmitter...