Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turns of the carefully tamped track, Davis was clocked in 0:45.8, tying the 440-yd. world's record set in 1956 by another U.S. Olympian. California's Jim Lea. Davis' performance was all the more impressive since Lea set his mark running out of a chute at Modesto, Calif., was slowed down by only one turn. Big Ten team champion: Illinois. Second: the Hoosiers of Indiana...
Only after he has slowed down to about 3,000 m.p.h. will the pilot be able to set his air brake -open a stainless steel para chute. The shock that this produces may be the worst...
...pieces of steel across the wing and fuselage. The navigator had bailed out of the nose compartment; so had the pilot. Copilot Obenauf, squeezing along the catwalk toward the nose, was ready to jump too. He looked down and froze: there, lying unconscious, his oxygen equipment disconnected, his chute pack gone, was the navigator-instructor, Major Joseph B. Maxwell...
...wind roared through the open trap door, "Obie" Obenauf hurriedly searched for Maxwell's parachute. His body was weakened from lack of oxygen. He could not find the chute. He looked down at Maxwell again, felt an awful, strong urge to leave him. "Gee, I got my own battle to fight." Then Obie, just turned 23, five years out of high school, father of a ten-month old boy, father-to-be of a second child, turned around and crawled back into his rear cockpit and took control of the airplane on the chance that he might be able...
After dropping his first set, 6-4, Krogh rallied to take the long second one, 11-9. The Crimson split two unofficial contests, as Laurie Pratt lost and Dick Chute triumphed, both in straight sets...