Word: funneling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the removal of the kiosk or the construction of a Porter Square station to funnel off much of the current MTA traffic could further simplify Harvard Square. The chance of this happening in the near future is nil. Not only is the MTA broke, but Harvard Square merchants would be sure to protest the resulting drop in trade should Porter Square become the North Cambridge outlet...
Siam's incredible cheerfulness did not stop at Bangkok. It spread across the whole funnel-shaped country of 18 million people-to the farmers slogging behind lumbering carabao in the knee-deep water of the rice paddies, and to the tappers working their way down long, slanting rows of rubber trees...
...literally, a jump), one of a series of fashionable private houses where, in rotation, gambling is carried on almost every night. Brincos are the most elegant manifestations of a long-standing conflict between Mexicans' desire to bet on whatever they please and the government's efforts to funnel gambling money into taxable channels...
...claiming that strengthening the treaty countries would give us European bridgehead in case of war, that "abandosing these countries with a promise of later liberation" is militarily unsound. Bradley and his colleagues believe that the arms aid could enable Western Europe to hold on until the U. S. could "funnel in forces...
...Ramparts. To Bradley, both the pact and "some military assistance" were needed if Europe was to have both the means and the will to resist aggression. "The North Atlantic pact," said Bradley, "would enable free nations of the Old World and the New to funnel the great strength of our New World to the ramparts of the Old, and thus challenge an enemy where he would transgress . . . Not until we share our strength on a common defensive front can we hope [for] a real deterrent...