Word: chute
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...battle for alpine skiing supremacy. Through the neighboring valleys and forests, Scandinavians, East Germans, and Russians will be straining to win the cross-country marathons, while overhead Austrians, Finns and Swiss try to fight gravity for the longest ski jump. On the icy, twisting bobsled and luge chute, Italians, Swiss, West and East German daredevils will be approaching the speed of insanity...
...Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector of the city, they were gathered into waiting cars, ambulances and even a bread truck and driven to fighting stations. One paratrooper, a 29-year-old Turk named Sami, smiled broadly as he unbuckled his gear and slipped out of his brown chute. "This makes me tremendously happy," he said, apparently having been well coached by his officers. "We are just here to look after the welfare of the Turkish community...
Hortonville seems an unusual setting for an angry labor battle. Immaculately kept dairy farms, interspersed with scattered forests and sparkling streams, dot the countryside. But the farmers and pulp-mill workers tend to be bedrock conservatives (oldtimers still revere the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, who grew up in Grand Chute twelve miles away), and anti-union sentiment runs high...
...identifies the feeding pen it is delivering to. She inserts a punch card carrying dietary instructions for the animals in that pen into the computer, which automatically dispenses the proper proportions of food into the truck. The truck then drives slowly along the troughs, spilling feed through a chute practically into the open mouths of the gluttonous cattle...
Unlike the snow during the Middlebury Carnival Eastern Regionals two weeks ago, the snow yesterday was much harder and faster and was patched with ice. Red flags marking the gate at the bottom of the chute stand only 10 feet away from the woods...