Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty ticket chute prevented 18 undergraduates from getting their Dartmouth game tickets on time, Frank Lunden, H.A.A. ticket manager, reported last night...
...biplane leveled off at 5,000 ft. over the tawny fields of Burgundy. In the rear cockpit, a Russian parachutist carefully checked his equipment. When he spotted a white chalk cross on the ground below, he stepped off into space. For 20 seconds he fell free. Then his nylon chute blossomed overhead and he began to drift downwind, past his target. Tugging skillfully at his suspension lines, he spilled air from his chute and slipped back toward the cross. He touched down only four yards short of the mark...
...That Russian was playing on his chute like an organist," marveled a pop-eyed observer at the Second International Parachute Jumping Championships of Saint-Yan last week. "Eto Nichevo," shrugged the jumper. "It was nothing. Everyone on my team...
...mount, an untamed sorrel, exploded from the rodeo chute, rearing and chopping at the air, twisting its body with a whiplike motion, then settled down to a series of earth-pounding bucks. Champion Bill Linderman gripped with his thighs, with practiced nonchalance raked the sorrel's sides with his spurs, timing the raking motion to match the rhythm ot the bucks. All the while, Linderman kept his eyes on the sorrel's ears−whose turnings often tip off the next plunge...
...Carefully, for luck, he touched each blade-then the Swiss were off. Using Feierabend's simple formula-"Hug the curves high and develop speed, like a dive bomber"-the Swiss sled was soon hitting 80 m.p.h. It spun through a series of labyrinth curves, down an ice-coated chute into famed Crystal Curve (where 24 sleds cracked up in 1950), then whipped across the finish line in a wild flurry of snow as the brakeman pulled to a stop. The announced time brought a roar from the crowd: 1:18.94, a new record...