Word: chute
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...three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs with just the right bouncing qualities, Leverone's engineers countered with electrical devices to test conductiv ity, gauges to measure dimensions, gadg ets to bite for traces of lead or tin. But for years, as fast as Leverone improved his machines, ingenious customers found...
...supersonic bailout, Radioplane Co., a Northrop subsidiary, has devised a special parachute called the Skysail, packed tightly in a container that an air blast cannot tear open. When the pilot jumps, his hunched body slows down quickly. When his speed is subsonic (and the pilot is probably unconscious), the chute is designed to open gradually, distributing the shock over a longer interval than the standard parachute. Moreover, a special harness spreads the deceleration forces over a larger area of the pilot's body. If he is able to survive the hammer-like initial blow of the supersonic...
...royal Thai jets, 6,000 U.S. soldiers rained down on Bangkok's Don Muang airport by parachute before the awed eyes of 250.000 Thailanders. Most impressive unprogrammed sight: the rescue in mid-air by one paratrooper of a comrade who jumped in the same stick but whose chute failed to open. Popeyed, rice farmers saw field guns and trucks larger than their houses drop from the sky. U.S. marines, landing from 30 helicopters, fought a mock battle against "enemy" strongpoints with flamethrowers and satchel charges...
...surprisingly powerful Russians piled up points in almost every event they entered. The U.S. was substantially nowhere. ¶Bobsledding, almost a private sport for hefty, hare-brained daredevils, held no appeal for the Russians. Italian Jet Pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa, who knew every bump on the dangerous chute, put his long hours of practice to good use, swooshed home in front of his teammate Eugenio Monti. The best the U.S. could salvage was a slow fifth by Connecticut's Bud Washbond...
...words to be introduced. They argued about the merits of oral and silent reading; they also began to champion the idea of teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back in the '30s, some educators decided that phonics were no longer useful, so they got rid of phonics...