Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems the Stoughton men never liked to pay for phone calls. For several moths they had been spinning pennies into coin slots but finally the phone company caught on and put in a spinproof chute. This didn't work either, as the ingenious men of '53 made over a hundred more penny phone calls before the company pulled the instrument from the wall. One national magazine had a few choice things to say about the incident...
...Stoughton men were annoyed last week when newspapers said they hit the phone with a baseball bat--'It was always a brick." After the spinproof chute was installed "one forehanded genius was practicing spinning nickels into the quarter slot in preparation for a call to his home in Texas...
Aloft, he stripped down to a costume consisting of long red underwear, a blue Mae West and a white helmet, got into his chute-and after heaving out a dummy to watch the direction of its fall-cheerily stepped into space. He floated grandly down, narrowly missed a clump of trees, and splashed into the water where he calmly floated on his back waiting to be picked up. Cried he as a speedboat rescued him: "I feel like...
...Fannin' and battin'" the shanks of a red-eyed Brahman bull, Harley May of Sul Ross College came winging out of the chute, absorbed three spine-cracking jolts, and ended up flat on his back on the tanbark of Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. Grinning sheepishly, May got up, dusted off his skintight blue jeans and admitted ruefully: "I didn't do so good...
...make sure that rodeo mounts will come out bucking, they are harnessed with a tight "flank" strap, fastened around the belly and croup. The strap is tightened just before the chute door opens, is quickly released again at the end of the ride...