Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooklyn's example (at right) is mysterious from head to toes. The helmet is adorned not with the familiar bull's horns of Mesopotamian moon gods, but with those of an ibex. The broad-cheeked face is Caucasian; the inlaid eyes date back to Sumeria. The staff in the hand is a later addition; no one knows whether the figure actually carried a staff, an offering, or a weapon. The pack on the back resembles the wings and tail of a great bird, and the pointed beard can be taken for a beak. The girdle is an ancient...
Japan. Around Tokyo's cluttered "Street of the Helmet" near the Tokyo Stock Exchange, hundreds of little stores last week teemed with brokers and small investors ranging from kimono-clad women to weatherbeaten farmers, all hopeful of making a few quick yen. After a year of falling prices, the Tokyo stock market suddenly turned around, gained 10% last week alone. Reasons: there were prospects of trade with Red China, and the new Hatoyama caretaker government promised a less stringent austerity program, announced plans to reduce taxes on corporate dividends...
...reasonably functional, but his most recent sled rides have made it hard for him to stay so. Last month at Holloman he climbed into a nine-rocket sled. In his mouth he held a rubber "bite block'' so that the jolting would not crack his teeth His helmet was fastened firmly so that the wind would not break his neck. Four strong nylon belts lashed him to the seat His elbows were lashed together by a strap behind his back, and his wrists were lashed together in front. His legs were tied in three places: thighs, knees...
...eyelids." He did not know how far they had pulled, or whether the retinas had-been detached (which would have made him permanently blind). "After the sled stopped," he says, "it was a minute or so before anyone came up. I was fully conscious. The someone opened my helmet, but I couldn't see anything. I yelled, 'I can't see.' They took off my helmet, and I tried to stand up, but I was too wobbly. I lifted my eyelids with my fingers, but I couldn't see a thing, just that salmon-colored...
Straw Hats & Helmets. Against this case, Ollenhauer's Socialists could only complain that rearmament is unpopular with German youth, and that to join irrevocably with the West is to abandon East Germans and perhaps in time to cause a Bruderkrieg (literally, war of brothers) between two armed Germanies. Answered one of Adenauer's supporters: "There is no longer a choice between straw hat and the steel helmet. The choice now is between a steel helmet with or without a Red star...