Word: chute
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remembers "singing hallelujahs as I did my first aerobatics in 1923, all alone, without the damn instructor in the rear cockpit." He also recalls "something like psychic ecstasy during my first parachute jump. The ecstasy ended when I landed in weeds and gravel and the open chute pulled me through them...
...captaincy of Harvard's Nordic ski team is not the most gloried position in Harvard sports, but for Jon Chaffee '66 it was a chute to two years of skiing around the world, in an enviable version of military service...
...have Marshall McLuhan and Bob Dylan, and who can forget Colonel "Shorty" Powers, sometime Voice of Project Mercury, describing Gus Grissom's first landing? "The drogue parachute is deployed, and the astronaut has a visual indication of it" (The drogue chute is open, and Gus can see it), and "The astronaut has indicated that he will proceed to effect egress" (Gus says he's coming...
...100F Super Sabre with Liethen, the Thunderbirds' executive officer, as observer, was practicing "opposing half Cuban eights" with a teammate when they scraped planes in a head-on pass at the top of their outside loops. The other pilot managed to land safely; Morgan ejected, but his chute failed to open, and Liethen rode their crippled plane to his death...
...humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret; Come all ye young maidens, and hear my sad tale/ 'Bout a brave young trooper whose 'chute did fail"). If Viet Nam has produced a true war poet, he is no doubt too busy fighting to write...