Word: chute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This morning he stood eyeing the chute which led from cages in the barn. He had four young, 200-lb. lion cubs up on pedestals around the practice cage. He was putting them into the act for the first time and he was waiting to see how the rest of the cats would act. His two striped sinuous tigers, Prince and Roger, stopped and snarled before they leaped to their shelf. But the five big old lions looked all right as they came...
...perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...
Dick jumped in like a man trying to beat a run on the bank. He went for the tigers first-they cost $1,000 apiece. But when he drove them up to the shelf with the buggy whip, big lions piled up at the chute and began killing little lions...
...eyes with his broomstick. It took 15 minutes, but finally, one by one, he got them back to their places. Two of the cubs were down; one was dead with a broken neck and the other was torn up and dying. The other two scuttled off into the chute. Dick got each big cat out in turn, and ended the act right. He was not hurt...
...sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that, it was just like any of Airman Lambert's previous 58 jumps...