Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recover it in front of the Harvard net. It went through the defenseman's legs, all right, but it also went past screened goalie Brandy Sweitzer and into the goal. At this point one rambunctious Big Red rooter reached into the Harvard bench and ripped off Price's helmet...
...linden and oak symbolized Old Germany, the emblem today is the Gummibaum (rubber plant), whose leaves luxuriate in the central heating of millions of spanking-new apartments. The nation has no motto; Gott mit Uns went the way of the spiked helmet, and the closest thing to a watchword in a devoutly neat country is "Vorsicht! Frisch Gebohnert" (Careful! Freshly Waxed). Well-to-do Germans are drinking more heavily, apparently to fight the frustrations of wealth; sociologists speak of Wohlstandsalkoholismus-prosperity alcoholism...
...girls-if they insisted on coming along. Judging from what they offered women who would ahunting go, Abercrombie's idea of female sporting wear was to shrink down a man's khaki shirt, slack off the seat of the trousers, and add a veil to the sun helmet. Part of Margaret Macomber's hostility to her luckless husband must have been her feeling that she looked awful...
Opposing coaches swear that he has eyes in the back of his head. As he dodges around back there, he has an uncanny "feel" for tacklers closing in on him from behind, and the glint of sunlight off a gold helmet among a swarm of defenders downfield is all he needs to register the position of his receiver. Says Coach Hardin: "Some people will be in a room a thousand times, and when they're out of it, they can't tell how many lights it has, what shape the furniture is, or anything. Staubach could. He sees...
...Yankee order, producers of 73 home runs this year, did not get the ball in front of the plate until the sixth inning. Mickey Mantle had two Ks beside his name in the scorebook before he managed an infield pop-up-and drop-kicked his batting helmet halfway to the dugout. At last, Tommy Tresh got to Koufax for a two-run homer. But Bobby Richardson, who struck out only 22 times all season, whiffed three times. "That," muttered a Yankee, "is an act of God." Finally, with two out in the ninth, Koufax fogged the final fastball past Harry...