Word: helmet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SIDE, face quivering with anger, eyes betraying his fear, stands a state trooper, leather boots up to the calf, white riot helmet, gas mask on his belt. On the other side, a demonstrator, mouth set in righteous defiance, shoulders hunching forward and back almost at once, spunk and fright in equal parts. The motorcycle helmet, the gas mask on his belt too. In between the two of them, eight feet of chain link and three strands of barbed wire...
...eight years old, I threw harder than anyone else in the league for eight- and nine-year-olds. My only problem was that I never knew where the ball was going," Stewart says with a smile. "Once, I hit a kid in the head and it broke his batting helmet. That's when the mothers started to get mad." Ron was subesequently banned from the league and moved up to the 10-12 bracket. He was playing American Legion ball...
...sacrificed to second by Ed (Piniella) Farrell. After a walk to Bobby Kelley, the only "hit" of the inning ensued. Billy Blood rapped a bouncer to first baseman Phil Johnson who stepped on first and relayed toward second for the tag. But the throw ricocheted off the helmet of the sliding Kelley, and rolled toward the third base line, where Perry picked it up too late to nail Bingham crossing the plate...
With a couple of trombone blasts, an amazon of a woman, sporting gold sequins, helmet and spear, rambles onto the stage to tell us she got lost in this forest running away from a clumsy abductor who dropped her from her balcony. This lady of the lowlands. Donna Ribalda (Melody Scheiner) feigns gusto in her aria, but soon gives in to boredom...
...star is discovered, between acts, in his dressing room. He is wearing a Viking's helmet, complete with horns, over a wig of lank brown hair, a corset over a lace shirt. On his right hand there is a boxing glove. He claims, in the rich, ripe tones of yesteryear's provincial matinee idol, that he was about to do his imitation of Queen Victoria, but that he has forgotten what she looks like. The program's ever harassed star and manager, who just happens to be a very green, very agreeable frog, tells his guest that though he loves...