Word: funnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force officers have conceded that the Luftwaffe was responsible for Guernica; they have also insisted that the raid was a monumental error, caused by bad visibility and inexperience. The real target, they have claimed, was a tiny, 60-ft. stone-and-steel bridge over the narrow Mundaca River, a funnel for retreating Basque troops. But why incendiaries against a stone bridge? And why so massive a raid against so small a target? The Renteria Bridge, in any case, was never touched. Nor were the sacred oak and the adjoining Casa de Juntas (assembly hall) of the Basques, nor an important...
Harvard coach George Ford had his team funnel the ball to "distributor" Lee Nelson in the middle of the field, where he had the option of holding the ball or playing it wide to one of the forwards...
...Similarly, she does not preoccupy herself with what an outsider may think of a welfare mother who does not even attempt to work; she has learned that the Department of Social Services taxes welfare recipients' outside earnings 100 per cent, so declines to serve as a cash funnel. Besides, where would she leave her children? Who would make sure they went to school (which she can hardly be sure of herself...
Preceded by two headlights, a funnel of dust announces the arrival of Bill Eldridge, a former Fort Pierce cop who helped write Stewart's first album, You 're Not the Woman You Used to Be. Eldridge has come to escort his friend, now somewhat lulled by the grease and beer, to the evening's performance. It is a Tuesday night, normally a slow evening, but the Flying Bridge Lounge is packed with a country crowd ready to greet the local boy with rebel yells. Men cradle sweating bottles of Pabst against their paunches and admire...
...entire Carter advisory operation to date is described by Schwartz as "building Rolodex files which provide instant access to a funnel of expertise...