Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembers no more, but engineering analysis can describe roughly what happened. The wind hit his body with a force of 8,000 Ibs., and he felt deceleration of 40 gs, so that his organs weighed 40 times normal. His arms and legs must have flailed like propeller blades. His helmet, shoes, socks, gloves, wristwatch and ring were stripped off. His seat blew away automatically; his parachute opened and his unconscious, battered body drifted down toward the sea half a mile offshore. Air blast had inflated his stomach and lungs so that his body floated when it hit the water...
...chore of packing for forty-odd football players. "These two trunks are for the BaBas," he explains, describing the thick fleece-lined jackets worn by players on the bench. "These here," he smiles, opening one of the big trunks, "are partitioned into small boxes, so we can protect the helmets individually." Other trunks display newly-greased shoes, folded underwear, bright jerseys. Before each game, Farrell and his assistants check over every piece of equipment--shoelaces, hip-and-kidney pads, helmet straps--for every member of the team...
...order to buy his sister an artificial leg. On the front lines, Reckless became both a mascot and an efficient carrier of ammunition for a recoilless ("Reckless") rifle platoon, 5th Marines. She learned to relish C-rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently and to kneel down when enemy fire came close (the marines always covered her with their flak jackets on such occasions). After the war, Major General Randolph Pate, commanding general of the 1st, cited Reckless for bravery and formally promoted...
...those of boisterous schoolboys. Of the "Footballer", humorist Al Capp says "The head of the football player is only half as great as that of the average man, but this size is quite large enough, for it's all the young man needs to carry a crew cut and helmet...
...back on their heels on their own twenty. Next time he got his hands on the ball, Bradley lost 13 yards. It was time for Sanders to make his move. In a fatherly way, he took Ronnie Knox by the arm. The handsome, long-legged junior buckled on his helmet and trotted in to take over at tailback...