Word: funnelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
...radarmen of the Water Survey first focused on a thundercloud which had suddenly grown a tail (the large blob of light near top in first cut). This was the start of the tornado funnel, still high in the air and shooting toward the east at about 48 m.p.h...
Eight minutes later, the funnel had curled into a thin spiral, with its tip dipping down to the ground (middle picture). In two minutes more (bottom picture), the funnel had formed a counterclockwise swirl and was ripping up a strip of Illinois...
...course, dress at Harvard is a fairly static, conformist affair. Zoot-suits, funnel shapes, and one-button California drapes were never in order: it's always been (or at least, for as long as we can recall) the three-button jacket with sparely padded shoulders...
This would in effect increase Claverly popularity and make the so-called "out-house" a funnel for the House system. Commuters and returning students would then enter Claverly and wait for a House vacancy...