Word: chutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
...fired to slow the space capsule and send it plunging back into the atmosphere. He had a choice, he said later, of riding his capsule all the way to earth, or of parachuting out once he dropped low enough. He chose to eject from the Vostok and use his chute, with which he drifted into a plowed field some 460 miles from Moscow, remarkably close to the spot where Yuri Gagarin landed...
Smooth, clear and professional, the Central Park group offers, in the words of Elizabethan Scholar Marchette Chute, "bright, swift Shakespeare, overacted, rather like a poster, as it has to be out of doors; the great thing is that it brings Shakespeare back to his original, wonderfully motley audience." And it brings him back for nothing. In six seasons, Producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival has played to more than 600,000 people, never charging admission...
Click-Click. On the night of June 6, 1944, Major General Taylor became the first American general to invade Europe when he led his joist Airborne Division on the jump into Normandy. Taylor struggled out of his chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen...
...instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like popcorn in jets of air; as the balls fell one by one through a small chute, the announcer intoned "Dinkey-doo, 22" or "Clickety-click, 66," and the air grew violet with suspense...