Word: channelized
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...genic rage, using his own big toe as bait to lure a rare vampire bat. The author is a zoophile who tired several years ago of catching animals for other people and, as he related in A Zoo in My Luggage, set about establishing his own zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey...
Miss Mansfield "whose 165 I.Q.," according to the C.I. press release, "matching her physical I.Q. (Incredible Qualities)," says, "You can mess yourself up pretty heavily by giving vent to sexual desire. People, and particularly the young, should channel their sex drives elsewhere--either into work or sports." And she adds, "Indiscriminate use of sexual desire makes no sense. I mean, after all, you don't let a child eat all the candy he wants merely because he wants...
...much as a huge television set. The glass in the picture windows is specially treated to let in ultraviolet rays so that on sunny days the occupants can indulge in the Russian penchant for midwinter sunbathing. Looking in on such a scene, passers-by might well wonder what channel that show was coming...
...limited crises, serve as a highly convenient channel of force where (as in the Gaza Strip and the Congo) the use of national armies would be unpolitic or unsafe. Nor is its function as an international forum negligible, though much derided. "World opinion" may be an elusive force on whose wooing much effort can be wasted. But the U.N. remains a place where participants in a quarrel can be quickly summoned, where alarum can be raised, attitudes judged, responsibility or irresponsibility exposed, pressure exerted. In short, it is a place where, despite perils and failures, men and groups engage...
...major charities are completely new to the drive--WGBH television, and the World University Service. WGBH, Boston's educational channel, suffered a $1,500,000 loss last October when its plant was completely destroyed by fire. WUS is a relief organization financed solely by student contributions which carries out educational programs in 40 countries...