Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a bore and a nuisance. Its radio voice, powered by solar cells, is still on the air after 4½ years. Its reports translate to nothing more important than "Here I am." And unstoppable broadcasts, which may well persist for 1,000 years, clutter up a precious radio channel...
While the diplomats were talking and Castro was sending out his saboteurs, the U.S. military buildup went on. Four LST troopships showed up at Fort Lauderdale, one at anchor in the channel and three nosed up to the beach with their bow doors open like yawning hippopotamuses. The 14,000 Air Force reservists that had been ordered to active duty were told that they might have to serve as long as one year. The Tactical Air Command had fighter-bombers and troop transports ready to go. The Strategic Air Command was on combat alert, with a fleet...
...eccentric aristocrats and antic nonagenarians, his neutral-to-Nikita stand revealed to many what Economist Maynard Keynes once called "Bertie's ludicrously incompatible views" of man's fate. Unilateralism, which has often been defended in Britain as a kind of beatnik Boy Scout movement that helps channel youthful idealism, has also been badly tarnished in recent weeks...
...weeks, refugees and intelligence sources within Cuba had insisted that the Soviet Union was equipping its Caribbean satellite with missiles, manned by Russians, that could carry nuclear destruction to the U.S. But the reports were fragmentary and sometimes contradictory. And U.S. reconnaissance planes, photographing Cuba from the Yucatan Channel to the Windward Passage, could detect no such buildup. President Kennedy was not yet persuaded to take decisive action...
...incidents,'' radioed the boarding party. "No prohibited material in evidence. All papers in order. Marucla cleared to proceed course 260. speed 9 knots to Havana via Providence Channel. Maintaining surveillance...