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parachute
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"Parachute" is a song by English band Kaiser Chiefs . It is the lead single from their sixth studio album, Stay Together . The video for the single was directed by Ed Sayers.
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v. jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: jump ]
Usage examples of parachute.
Parachute troops had invaded the Netherlands Indies, Thailand was occupied and Indochina was opened up by the acquiescent Vichy regime, bringing the Japanese forward to the eastern frontier of Burma.
I said these words did him extreme credit, but that he must not throw away the imperishable distinction of being the first man to descend an Alp per parachute, simply to save the feelings of some envious underlings.
One, perhaps two, armoured divisions, with one motorised division, about 180 dive-bombers, and some parachute troops, seems to be all that could cross the Bulgarian-Greek frontier up till the middle of February.
These are fitted with attemperators, and parachutes for the removal of yeast, in much the same way as in the skimming system.
One emblematic evening I watched Franklin pump to apogee and bail out, no doubt escaping one of those avuncular Flying Fortresses on a parachute that thighs sacrificed their stocking silks for.
I think first of bailing out, but who can tell where the wind will carry the parachute?
The rather handsome young man standing to attention in his best barathea uniform and polished Sam Browne, pale-blue parachute wings over the pocket.
McWatt winked at him reassuringly as he climbed down from the plane and joshed hospitably with the credulous new pilot and bombardier during the jeep ride back to the squadron, although he did not address a word to Yossarian until all four had returned their parachutes and separated and the two of them were walking side by side toward their own row of tents.
Cowboy hopes to find a window to launch another missile, but the blazing fuel just over the rise is confusing his sensors and the coleopter suddenly banks into a swift turn, scattering thermite decoys that burn like miniature parachute suns, and the window that fluttered open for a second is gone.
His parachute was equipped with an emergency beeper that would have squalled over Guard channel if he had ejected, but nothing had been heard that afternoon.
It happened that the Wasp had been thinking in terms of parachutes even before Fayle mentioned them.
Tut began gathering his parachute, but Festina just waved at me to take care of hers while she set up a Sperm-field anchor.
But seeing Lori again had started something akin to a spark on a parachute.
He felt precisely the sensation of the aeronaut when he cuts loose his parachute and lets his balloon drift away.
The flames of engine and parachute were an ochreous yellow against the backdrop of grey clouds.