Word: chute
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From across the moat they heard by the wireless that the Allies had just carried out their biggest maneuvers yet with para chute and glider-borne soldiers, British and U.S. Soon the same men would drop down out of the night somewhere on the Continent...
...shot him some from my ball turret. Then Friday let him have it as he came through the other side. It just tore his tail off as though a big fist had twisted it. One guy baled out and we saw his chute open...
This axing abruptly ended Dr. Soong's nine-year reign as head of one of the world's great financial organizations. Chinese murmured that more was to follow: Harvard-educated T. V. seemed to be on a greased political chute, might even lose his position as Foreign Minister. Political observers recalled that among the Foreign Ministers at the Cairo Conference, T. V. was conspicuously absent...
...Then the plane leveled off a little. I took off my chute and went forward to the pilot's compartment. The radio room was a mess, every loose thing smashed and thrown all over the place...
...told the pilot I didn't have my chute and he said, 'That's all right; Papa's going to take you home...