Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected to the All-America on the basis of: 1) the cheering section's reaction; 2) judgment in selecting the best psychological moment for a cheer; 3) acrobatic ability-not only proficiency in the common cartwheels, handstands and general high jinks, but also the Ritter Span, Nelson Arch, Duos...
...lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less complicated back flip) and Duos (synchronized tumbling by two or more...
...Finland. Russia is the arch-criminal this time, not Germany, and as far as the United States is concerned she has committed an outrage with possibly even less justification than those of the Reich, against a country which is more intimately related to America by common ties and friendship than either Czechoslovakia or Poland. The significance of the Finnish conquest, (its outcome is undebatable) may be less far-reaching than those of its predecessors, but pacifistic sentiment in the United States will clearly be put to another severe strain...
Both apt and arch is the tank officer's metaphor...
More serious than this subjective terror are dislocations of the jaw, tiny compression fractures of the spine, which occurred to metrazol patients in over 40% of one series of cases. During their violent convulsions, patients arch their backs with such force that sometimes they literally crush their vertebrae...