Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similar misconceptions distorted the images of my other childhood heroines. I once envisioned the daring aviator, Amelia Earhart, in helmet and goggles to be at least as regal as Joan of Arc. Now I read how she crashed to an ambiguous death in the Pacific, amid rumors that she was on a secret espionage mission against Japan. And I read that Pocahontas, after heroically saving John Smith, eventually married a settler she may not even have loved, only to die in England three years later--just twenty-five--overcome by a bitter winter. And I pictured Lotta Crabtree, the actress...
When I handed Tommy the completed form, he asked me how I could get a football helmet on "with that beard". I told him I didn't think I would have any problems. He then looked down at my Navy surplus bellbottom trousers and asked me if I had been in the Navy. I answered, "no". Then he said, "Well, why then do you wear those weird clothes...
...when that big hand descended upon his shoulder and he was told that no, there just wasn't a place for him on the Big Team. You'd think that you were taking bread out of his family's mouth or something, the way he carried on, slamming his helmet around, wailing like a goddamned banshee...
...example, pictures of Mussolini in uniform and helmet on walls at party headquarters were replaced with 19th century landscapes. The Trieste party responded to the decree with a public ceremony at which clubs, helmets and iron bars were virtuously surrendered. In lieu of rabble-rousing party posters, MSI floods urban crime areas with handbills that read: "The people want protection against criminals...
After St. Louis's Wayne Maki belted Boston's Ted Green over the head with his stick. Higgins made Green a special helmet to protect him from a further head injury, which might prove fatal...