Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum's 170 Ibs. and the massive press of air. They could see Flugum desperately trying to claw at the choking strap of his helmet. His lips time and time again mutely formed "Please, please, please...
...Swiss frontier. Near Dongo, 30 miles from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later the squat man, Benito Mussolini, and his doxy Claretta Petacci were hanging upside down outside a gas station in Milan...
Julitz, a good swimmer, led the way. He had not been present four months earlier when a battalion order was issued forbidding training troops to ford the Iller, and no one present thought to inform him of it. At midstream Julitz went under; only his helmet was visible. Within seconds the Iller's treacherous currents had caught the rest of the platoon...
Priests with permission to use motorcycles or scooters will be permitted, however, to substitute a beret or crash helmet for a clerical hat, and the cardinal's letter urges them to take out insurance with Mutual de Clero (Clergyman's Mutual...
Defenseman John Baldwin took the ball all the way up the field to the New Hampshire goal and unloosed a shot that struck the top bar of the cage, rebounded onto the helmet of the UNH goalie, and then ricocheted off the side support of the goal. Amid the protests of the varsity team, the referee ruled that the ball had never entered the goal area...