Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traveled on a 720-ton ex-Italian minelayer, now the Yugoslav training ship Galeb (Seagull). The royal welcome began in the Sicilian Channel, where the British destroyers Chieftain and Chevron steamed up to convoy the dictator. At Gibraltar three more British destroyers and three aircraft carriers joined up, cannon booming, and 60 planes roared past in a "flyover" (three crashed, killing four officers...
...Degree of Agony. Unlike most Englishmen, Francis Thompson had not the least desire to travel, and never so much as crossed the Channel. If he ever felt sexual desire, it was lost in his belief that "all human love ... is a symbol of divine love," and should be treated accordingly. Not all the women he met understood this -particularly the mothers of unmarried daughters. Author Meynell prints the unconsciously funny letter of one anxious mother who feared that her daughter might succumb to Poet Thompson. "It is not in her nature to love you; but I see no reason...
With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to promise its "continued full support" to the European Army. And Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that when he visits Washington next week, he will ask the U.S. to join Britain in a pledge extending NATO's 20-year guarantees (which include the stationing of their troops on the Continent...
Full Speed Ahead. Her lights blacked out, the Raman scraped a pier, narrowly missed ramming a smaller vessel, and set off down the River Weser with the tightly lashed tugboat still bumping at her side. At a sharp bend in the channel, the Raman neatly dropped anchor in the darkness, pirouetted about the anchor chain, then hoisted anchor and headed for the open sea, 50 miles downstream. The five crewmen scrambled up from the tugboat and cut it adrift. Belching black smoke, the Raman gathered speed while her captain, Rifat Onder, turned a cold. Nelson-like eye to every signal...
...been allowed to pursue truth wherever it might lead. And they at least have always been humble enough to admit the chase can never end. A dogmatic truth, be it imposed by alumni pressure or any other means, would change the University's goal from education to indoctrination. To channel the search for truth would be to dry up the sources of the University's greatness...