Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instruction is designed to make you think preplanned thoughts while you're falling. You are supposed to think about the muscles in your body, the tension of the pull of your back parachute opening, the positions of your legs used to manipulate your orientation in the air. You are to count, shout, "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand" until your chute opens...
...emergency parachute, and decide which way to put it out (it's a little different for different malfunctions). It takes from a second to a second and a half to reach down against a 125 mile an hour wind to find the ripcord on your stomach and pull it and then punch the bag to make sure the chute is knocked out. It then takes two seconds for the emergency chute to become fully open. At this point you are travelling at the terminal velocity for a falling human, 125 miles an hour; you started with less than half...
...FIRST act we did was the three clowns. It was all comedy that we were doing, hitting each other with broomsticks, and they'd pull the pants off me and I had a dress underneath that flared out this way here, and big rubber sponges for muscles on the thighs and the calves of the legs. It was a very funny act, it was a scream. It lasted for a constant eight or nine minutes; it didn't stop a second. From there on, I get tired of it after a while. Meanwhile, one of the acrobats that was with...
Perennial track power Villanova is favored to successfully defend its IC4A crown. The Jumbos have lost key runners through graduation and the Olympics, but they have competent backup strength in Tom Donnelly, Chris Mason, and Dick Buerkle. Add a tradition of victory and coach Jumbo Elliott's ability to pull out the big ones, and Villanova has to be listed as the team to beat today...
...Crimson, riding an unexpected winning streak, enter the Brown game with several question marks on the offensive line. Guard Bob Jannino, suffering from a hamstring pull, will probably not start, if he plays at all (although it looks now like he might be ready for Yale...