Word: horsecollar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was it for the Boston offense. King Carl Yastrzemski, the subject of nearly every sports columnist in the country this morning after his fantastic Triple Crown season, took the horsecollar in four tries...
...chute, and the choppers buzzed to meet it. They were hovering close when it hit the water with a small splash, three miles away. Shepard had already asked by radio to be taken aboard; so Crook Wielder Cox got a line around the capsule, steadied it and lowered a horsecollar sling to lift Shepard to the chopper.* Safe in the cabin, the first U.S. astronaut exulted: "It's a beautiful day. Boy, what a ride...
...week, two Navy free balloonists, Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieut. Commander Victor Prather Jr., made a record flight (21.5 mi.) off the U.S.S. Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died soon after a frogman hauled him to the surface...