Word: funnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when The Crimson compared my glove hand to that of Marv Throneberry. But the meaning of the term "humbled" was never clearer than on that Saturday afternoon in Ithaca when a lone voice in Cornell's Lynah Rink intoned, "Bertagna, you're not a sieve...you're a funnel...
...primary concern in the West about the Shah's newest crisis was the potential threat to Iran's control over the Persian Gulf, the funnel for much of the oil destined for Japan, Europe, Israel and the U.S. Iraq, which got the Shah to stop Iranian support for a rebellion of its Kurdish separatists in 1975, feared the revival of ethnic and tribal tensions in the region. Fearful that a successful move to topple the Shah would unsettle other monarchies in the area, Saudi Arabia's King Khalid called on Arab nations to give the Shah all possible support...
...most cases $40,000 a year ?on the target-price payments that any one farm can receive. It could go further and establish a sliding scale, with full target prices applying only to the first 50,000 or so bushels of a farmer's production. That would funnel a larger portion of the payments to small farmers who have less ability to survive a one-year loss...
...marines were flown to Managua the next day to protect lives and property and stabilize the Somoza regime. The determination of successive administrations to keep Somoza in power is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the U.S. government continues to violate its own laws in order to funnel aid to Somoza. Specifically, the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act prohibits aid to foreign police forces--but the National Guard is Nicaragua's police force. (It is also the army. But there is no real threat of foreign invasions; the only real threat is from the Nicaraguan masses...
Calabrese said he is aware of a sentiment among more radical students that the Student Assembly could diffuse energy previously funneled into effective demonstrations against the administration. "I don't think there is a grand conspiracy to co-opt student power, but I think it has occurred to them [Harvard administrators] that if they don't provide for student input into University decisions, they'll have a dangerous situation on their hands ...They probably realize it's in their own best interest to work with the Student Assembly instead of ad hoc demonstrations. This will funnel student energies so that...