Word: funnelers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaving the Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium the afternoon before the season's opening game. Witteman looked up to see a dark "funnel" looming in the distant sky. "At first I didn't know what it was," he recalled. By the next morning he learned that it was only one of many tornadoes that had smashed through eleven states (see THE NATION); the twisters had devastated half the city of Xenia, Ohio, only 60 miles away. Witteman called New York and was told to report on the Xenia tragedy-after the game...
...teams he uses a network of underground informants called "readers," who have contacts with coaches, players, owners, even locker-room attendants. Their job is to collect material about players' physical conditions, troubles with girl friends or wives, and other dicey dope. These "friends," as Martin calls them, funnel their findings to Las Vegas several times a week. This is an expensive intelligence operation...
...Cambridge facilities to keep track of local affairs. Gill is a self-confessed informer who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation regularly and did sporadic work for the CIA. Her knowledge of the office and its staff and the agency's use of the Cambridge office to funnel her money is incontrovertible evidence that for some purpose the CIA has been following local activities through its Boston office...
...intestine) and to fashion it into the shape of a U (see diagram). Next he trained his surgical microscope, working at 20-to 40-power magnification, on the minuscule bile ducts. He exposed them, and with incredibly fine needlework sewed one branch of the U over them like a funnel. He sutured the other branch of the U into the upper part of the duodenum, about where nature intended bile...
...screaming halt to auto use would be more destructive still." Los Angeles' neighbors disagree. The cities of Riverside and San Bernardino, which filed the suit to speed EPA action, are suffocating under a pall of Los Angeles' pollutants; they lie at the end of a natural funnel east of L.A.-and the prevailing winds blow from the west. Says their lawyer, Mary Nichols: "They see the Clean Air Act as their only hope...