Word: funnelator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Campbell looked back and saw "a big black funnel, about 75 yds. wide at the ground, and maybe 500 ft. high." The twister passed over his car, bouncing it up and down a few times; then everything went calm. "Everything seemed to be in slow motion," he says. "I could detect all sorts of things swirling around me. At one point I thought I saw a human body fly past. I could see right through the storm. I suddenly realized I was in the eye of the storm...
Torn to Bits. What Campbell witnessed was characteristic of a tornado. The houses on either side of a tornado's twisting funnel are in a low-pressure area. But the air inside the houses momentarily retains its original pressure. In that instant, a house can simply explode. Thus Civil Defense authorities urge people to keep their windows and doors open during a tornado so that the pressures can equalize. In Inverness, few heeded weather-service warnings that preceded the twisters...
...command the greatest information-gathering mechanism in the world. It is an untidy, ungainly monster. Cables by the thousands pour in daily to the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA, in time of crisis or relative calm. In the Nixon Administration, the departments and agencies funnel their foreign intelligence through National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. At roughly 9 o'clock each morning, he passes a 20-page summary on to the President, along with special memos of his own. During the day, Kissinger clips vital cables and forwards them to Nixon, sometimes hourly, sometimes even oftener. The total...
...Whether or not white people close down the university (and that is the least they should do if they are half- serious) there are certain activties of immediate importance into which black students can funnel energies," the statement concluded...
...funnel still more money into private housing, the Administration decided to ask Congress to give the Home Loan Bank Board $300 million to subsidize loans to savings and loan associations...