Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That helmet is now in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown...
...While attending Phillips Exeter Academy as a teenager, MacNeil was badly injured by a baseball. He fell into a coma for 10 days. When he emerged from the coma he wanted to go back to playing baseball. MacNeil's doctor told him that he would have to wear a helmet while batting...
Before Cousteau, undersea exploration was limited by the length of a human breath or the tether on a diving helmet. His co-invention of the Aqua-Lung in 1943 freed us to roam the ocean depths--like an "archangel" flying through the heavens, as he put it. Maker of more than 150 films, beginning with his Oscar-winning The Silent World in 1956, Cousteau revealed a flotilla of wondrous creatures to an audience that was instantly entranced. In his last book, Man, Octopus and Orchid, published shortly after his death in 1997 at the age of 87, Cousteau summed...
...like throwing the first punch in a game, taking off your helmet," said junior forward Scott Turco. "It puts us in a position where we have to play better...
Whether it was a helmet knocked off or a body pinned down, the refs were selective in delaying this fast-paced game...