Word: channelized
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...cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally paths of ice, and a man could have skated 100 miles from Boulogne to Beauvais. As rivers and canals froze in The Nether lands, droves of ice skaters turned...
Voice: Lissen, you stupid broad, don't you know it's against the FCC to hog the channel? Whyn't you shut up for a while? I'm gonna complain to the FCC about...
...monitors or ordinary listeners-in can tune in on any channel any night of the week and get an earful of such prohibited gab. Many CBers regularly call each other up and conduct two, four, or six-way conversations, continue them for longer than the five-minute FCC time limit, interspersing their transmissions with "the 10 code'' made popular by TV's Highway Patrolman Broderick Crawford, and usually end up by enraging other CBers who want to get on the air with legitimate and sometimes urgent messages to office, home or delivery truck. One such dialogue took...
...face put on the air by New York's Channel 4 last week was unfamiliar to the audience. It belonged to New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston. forced onto a rival medium by New York's newspaper strike.* As a TV newsman. Scotty Reston proved that he will never replace Dave Brinkley; the big eye obviously petrified him. But as he read his column, which appeared in print only in the Times's overseas and Western editions, he also proved, even more emphatically, that Dave Brinkley will never replace Scotty Reston. Timesman Reston managed...
...Engineers is about to spend $1.2 billion to open up a 516-mile stretch of the Arkansas River between the Mississippi and Catoosa, Okla., and is planning to connect the Tennessee and the Warrior-Tombigbee river systems. Mark Twain would be impressed by that one: to cut the connecting channel, the engineers are considering atomic blasting...