Word: channelized
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...more than 160 years, French and British engineers have proposed linking their countries with a tunnel under the English Channel. Though the plan appealed to many people-from seasick travelers to "one Europe" visionaries-it never came alive. The reason: Britain's reluctance to violate what Gladstone called "that streak of silver sea" that for centuries protected the island nation from invaders...
...years of discussion, an Anglo-French committee of government transport experts endorsed a plan to connect Dover and Calais by means of a 32-mile, $407 million railroad tunnel. The committee found either of two approaches feasible: a brace of segmented "immersed tubes" that would run across the channel floor, or a trio of cross-connected tunnels bored through the soft lower chalk layer 160 feet beneath the bottom...
...plumping for the "chunnel" (for channel tunnel), the committee rejected a proposed 21-mile cross-channel bridge. It would have cost twice as much, placed 164 dangerous steel-and-concrete pillars across the foggy Pas de Calais bottleneck which carries some 500 ships...
...channel five, it was the absence of injured Y.A. Tittle that made the difference as the Pittsburgh Steelers pushed the New York Giants all around the 21-inch screen for a 31-0 win. Tittle's replacement, the over-hapless Ralph Guglielmi, looked especially awful as the Giants were shut out for the first time in 10 years. The defense, which held Pittsburgh to 13 points in first half, seemed to lose interest when it became clear that the Giants weren't going to score yesterday...
Later, and on another channel, the presence of another elderly quarter-back inspired the Boston Patriots to a 20-14 win over the previously undefeated Oakland Raiders of the American Football League. Vito (Babe) Parilli, who used to quarterback the Green, Bay Packers in the days when they weren't winning anything, played all the way for Boston...