Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legs, arching and throwing his head back yelling, "ARCHTHOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, FOUR THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, LOOK" he looks to his left heel. "LOOK." He looks to a release on his right pelvis, "PULL". He pulls the release. "PUNCH." He punches open the imaginary auxillary chute: the litany for a jumper after exiting the plane. If the main chute doesn't open after a count of six-thousand, you must pull the reserve. After 17 seconds, he tells us, you may as well forget your reserve--skydiving becomes a "contact sport...
...boulders and a shady riverside of pine and walnut and warm banks of fern. Where morning sun lights the red leaves and the dark still conifers, the river sparkles in the forest shad ow; turquoise and white, it thunders past spray-shined boulders, foaming pools, in a long rocky chute of broken rapids. In the cold breath of the torrent, the dry air is softened by mist; this water trickled through the snow under last night's stars. At the head of the waterfall, downstream, its sparkle leaps into the air, leaps at the sun, and sunrays are tumbled...
...warship docked at the base thus becomes a kind of factory where a sailor puts in a day's work and then leaves, just like any civilian worker. Single enlisted men often head for the Scuttle Butt, a lively disco bearing no resemblance to the "slop chute" E.M. clubs that former Navy men knew. The new informality is striking. According to some officers, today's sailor does not always say "Yes, sir," but may just as frequently say "Yeah," and then add, "Have a nice...
...Cheryl left college and took off for New York. With another blue-eyed California blonde, Kelly Harmon, daughter of former Michigan Football Hero Tom Harmon, she lived in an apartment above the Shoreham Hotel's garbage chute. "Neither of us really fit into the New York scene very well," says Harmon, who now models and studies acting in Los Angeles. Despite the fact that Cheryl was working hard, she never seemed happy there. "She was an outdoors nut like myself," says Kelly, and in those days a suntan did not help. A California girl was tagged, she says...
...pilot of the skyjacked Lufthansa jet. In a fit of irrational fury, the terrorist leader, who called himself "Walter Mahmud," killed Schumann with a single pistol shot when the plane was on the ground in Aden, Southern Yemen. Schumann's body was pushed down the plane's emergency exit chute at Mogadishu. Had it not been for the skill of the rescuing commandos, many, if not all, of the terrified hostages might have suffered similar fates. According to the hostages' accounts, the skyjackers were sadists who flaunted their cruelty. Said a middle-aged male hostage: "They were animals, just animals...