Word: funneled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...
...valley. They widened and deepened the channels of Stony Creek, the Conemaugh and the Little Conemaugh, straightened curves, built concrete banks up to 67 ft. high. They spent $8,670,000 all told. Result: swift-flowing, unobstructed channels that are calculated to carry off any floods that may funnel into the valley...
Lifeboat (20th Century-Fox] is one of the most ambitious films in years. It begins with a close-up of a foundering ship's funnel that might stand for the end of an era. Then the camera closely meditates a dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye to frame, in the light of predawn, its compact symbol of our time: a damaged boat, its compass smashed, its sole occupant a trullish photojournalist who has lived through so much that she calls herself "practically immortal." Further survivors clamber aboard, masked and anonymous with floating oil. As the little...
...paper. Duties of policymakers had been clearly staked out. There was no reason why top men, each one now busy with his new divisions and well-defined duties, should continue to grope and work at cross-purposes. There was to be a new emphasis on departmental administration. Operations would funnel through twelve new "line" officials. The Secretary would be aided in policymaking by two powerful steering committees (Policy & Postwar Programs). There was a well-staffed new Division of Public Information. An Assistant Secretary was to work full time at the essential job of relations with Congress. There was an Office...
...attempt to keep warm many of us have purchased a pair of those funnel snuggles, and since they are only made in three sizes some of the boys find themselves looking like the Rockettes in their winter undies...