Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough game, mainly because the players discovered they could get away with a trip or a slash now and then. However, when Charley Gregg collected a two minute sentence for trying to dent a Tufts player's helmet, most of the Crimson violence evaporated...
...inspect a submarine, turned up later at the enlisted men's beach for his daily dip and a two-hour sunning. The red of his nose was peeling and turning to tan. He lolled in the sand in a T-shirt and white duck trousers, a canvas helmet shading his face. He looked like a man without a care in the world...
Among those who ascended to the starting point high above the village was a local boy, a sturdy, tough-looking Italian, Nino Bibbia, whose father runs a fruit& -vegetable shop in St. Moritz. Nino lay down on the iron framework of his toboggan, crash helmet in place, and shoved off. His "skeleton" (as Alpine tobogganers call their steel-runnered sleds) slithered dangerously down the famous ice chute, whose turns have sporty names like Scylla, Charybdis and Battledore...
...Last year on the Don I witnessed a symbolic picture. I saw a half-filled grave, and by it lay a German helmet. In the grave lay a skeleton, only partly covered by the shreds of what was once the grey-green uniform of a German soldier. A sharp-edged fragment of a Soviet shell had shattered his face. The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers...
Among the red tarbooshes in Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel last week bobbed many other varieties of Arab headgear-flowing khafiya of desert men from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, top-heavy sedarah from Iraq, the occasional spiked helmet of a Trans-Jordan Arab Legionnaire. The delegates of the seven Arab League states were getting their heads together to discuss tactics of the Arab fight against Zionism...