Word: channelize
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...brutal officers were undermining the Fleet's morale, though the Admiralty was woodenly unaware. England was at war with France, Holland and Spain; it was no time to talk about grievances or reforms. When the Admiralty received identical petitions from eleven ships' crews of the Channel Fleet, it did not even acknowledge them. By the time the authorities woke to the fact that trouble was brewing, it was too late. They ordered the Fleet to sea; it stayed where it was. Less mutineers than strikers, the sailors respectfully but firmly took over their ships, put the most unpopular...
...attacked the chief eulogist in France of Britain. The better to be able to eulogize, M. Reynaud went to London and sat in the House of Commons gallery while Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made Sir Samuel Hoare a scapegoat (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this trans-Channel junket seemed likely to blast many of M. Reynaud's political ambitions. As he went down under the Tiger's Cub, millions of Frenchmen pondered with care the exposition of the Ethiopian Question given by André Tardieu. Excerpt...
...question of life on Mars has been open ever since the time that the Italian astronomer, Schiaparelil, first observed a network of very fine lines on the planet's surface. These he called 'canale' in the report of his discovery to the astronomical world. The word which means "channel" was mistranslated as "canal" in both the English and French versions of his report...
...temporary expedient, but it certainly can never be a love match. Even if John Bull does not offer much, democratic Marianne should realize that for the rest of her life her head belongs on the same pillows as that of her present unromantic suitor from across the channel...
...were placed by Benito Mussolini in a "state of siege" and preparations were rushed full blast to use it as an Italian submarine and bombing plane base. Boasted proud Pantellerians prematurely: "Our island, because it lies in the middle of the narrowest part of the Mediterranean, commands the channel and divides the British forces...