Word: funnelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly, the light rain became a cloudburst-the worst in arid Petra's recorded history. Within half an hour, torrential floods were streaming down from the hills and cliffs and pouring into the Siq as into a funnel. One Italian pilgrim said, "We heard shrieks and cries within the ravine, as the muddy cascade of water rushed by us. We saw the little car with the four women and the driver swept along by the torrent and then submerged. In an instant, they all disappeared in the floodwaters raging along at perhaps 60 miles an hour...
Vellucci demanded that Rudolph appear before the City Council on Jan. 7 to defend his proposed truck routes through Cambridge. He challenged Rudolph's plans to funnel heavy trucks through "the peaceful, thickly populated residential areas" of the city and claimed that East Cambridge particularly would be inundated by a flood of heavy vehicles...
...gallons of raw sewage into the river every day. After years of talk, nearly every important civic organization in the city joined the drive to clean up the Mississippi; 104,000 public-school children carried home pamphlets explaining the bond issue. When completed in 1967, the new system will funnel wastes through a vast labyrinth of pipes into two sewage-disposal plants...
...base and used as a molasses storehouse. A machine gun chattered, and a burst of .50-caliber slugs ripped into the cabin; an explosion split the night. The launch drew up beside a second ship, the 7,O43-ton British freighter Newlane, and machine guns blazed again, riddling the funnel and crew quarters. The boat gunned its engines for a final firing pass at the Cuban coastal freighter San Blas, then high-tailed out to sea pursued by Castro helicopters...
Their feud became so fierce that Roosevelt tried to funnel patronage through Byrd enemies in Virginia. Says Byrd: "Not controlling patronage turned out to be a damn good thing for me, because the Depression was still on and everybody was wanting a job. There weren't enough to hand...