Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Magowan began his run by coming down a steep chute to pick up speed for the rest of the course. But he lost control in a series of bumps and had no chance to correct his position before veering off into the woods. He was traveling about 40 miles per hour as he left the course...
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...
Numerous skyjackers have confessed suicidal fantasies to Hubbard. Sometimes this intent is displayed when a skyjacker purposely delays opening his chute after jumping from a plane. Sometimes it comes out in an expressed indifference to death. Said one young man: "I bought me a plane ticket and a pistol. I thought, I'll either die or I'll do it. Either way was O.K. with me." Thus for many skyjackers, Hubbard says, death may be "not the ultimate punishment but the ultimate reward...