Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...target contests, the new .30-cals. poured out fire twice as fast and just as accurately as the Army's standard 30-cal. M-1 Garand rifle. At 100 yds., their steel-core slugs plowed through half-inch armor plate; at 1,200 yds. they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines in less than two seconds. When the demonstration was over, even such hard-to-please riflemen as Hatcher and Edson agreed that...
Dean was last heard from on the northern outskirts of Taejon. A survivor heard him say: "I just got me a Red tank." After the city fell, Dean's helmet liner was found in a rice paddy...
...government proposed to recruit 125,000 unpaid, part-time volunteers as the nucleus of a force which could be expanded in wartime to 900,000 men. Their duties: to protect arms factories, airfields and fuel plants against saboteurs and parachutists. Each man would be issued a steel helmet and either a rifle or Sten gun, but, unlike the World War II Home Guard, the new outfit would wear no uniforms-yet. Last week Churchill's bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons without opposition...
...practice field, under the orange & black helmet that adds an anonymizing grimness to his features, Kazmaier shows more of the fussiness of the perfectionist than the jet-flaming drive of a great halfback. But the flame is building up: it appears on Saturdays. On the first play from scrimmage he is so tense that Quarterback Stevens has standing instructions not to let him handle the ball.* Once the warmup of the first play is over, Kazmaier takes...
Kazmaier's attitude towards his teammates who play defense is deferential and slightly superstitious. When the defense is making a stand deep in Princeton territory, Kazmaier watches from the bench with his helmet off, so as not to put the "whammy" on them. Kazmaier himself has made no more than two or three tackles since his sophomore year. He is too valuable a property to risk on that jarring job. But he gets his share of lumps and bumps by enduring a series of smashing tackles and pile-ons whenever he runs, by getting knocked flat when he passes...