Word: funneling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started peacefully with a scenic late winter snowfall. Maryland got up to 24 in., northern Virginia 22, Pennsylvania 19. But then a rare combination of three pressure areas formed a funnel down which winds spilled off the turbulent Atlantic Ocean at ever-increasing speed to strike the U.S. East Coast. Reinforcing the high tides of the new moon, 84-m.p.h. gusts generated waves 25 ft. high. For two days the water rolled over coastal barriers from Connecticut to North Carolina. When it receded, damage was estimated at $300 million...
...brink of Glacier 511, below the peak of Peru's highest (22,205 ft.) mountain, a block of ice the size of two Empire State Buildings had broken loose with an explosive crack and plunged down the mountainside into a funnel-like canyon above a cluster of eight villages around Ranrahirca (pop. 2,456, according to last July's census). As it tumbled, the ice mass smashed into house-sized chunks, knocked loose millions of tons of boulders and mud, and grew into one of the endless huaycos (landslides) that make life on Peru...
...Intensified U.S. effort to funnel farm surpluses into the United Nations' Food-for-Peace Program, plus a careful development of foreign markets in underdeveloped countries for American produce...
What designers had up their big sleeves was a silhouette that defied a name. Some dubbed it the "Easy Look," others the "Airlift Look," still others the "Dragonfly Look." It accented huge, winglike sleeves and a wandering waistline. Designer Ceil Chapman's funnel-sleeved line highlighted the "pyramid waist," high in front and low in back. Designers Norman Norell and James Galanos achieved the long-torso effect by dropping the waistline well down to the hip. Designers expect that the wandering waistline will make women's figures look slimmer. Manufacturers expect that it will fatten retail-sales figures...