Word: cartwheels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five and a half minutes into the second period, Jim Saltonstall lofted a corner kick to the outside edge of the penalty area. There Kydes calmly waited, then went into a sidesaddle cartwheel. His right foot met the ball in mid-air and slammed it on a bounce into the goal, to the spectators' immense delight...
...fact, this is an outrageously bad book, written by an author with very little of interest to say, even to herself, and very little skill in saying it. It is composed of a swamp of hallucinated recollections, in the center of which resides a distracted spinster named Vera Cartwheel. She dithers madly and endlessly about her childhood, which was spent-in thin reality or thin dream-in a fantastic seaside mansion in New England. There she lived, or never lived at all, with an opium-soaked mother, two butlers, only one of them real, a spooky lawyer named Spitzer...
Ridiculous or not, knees and the lower thigh are now in the public eye. For still supple gamines who can toss off a handstand or a cartwheel, the new look will fit like an old glove. But for those who cannot resist layer cake and ice cream, Courrèges may take more courage than they...
...most newsworthy brand of law practice, trial work, is also for the most part closed to women, with such notable exceptions as the gaudy Gladys Towles Root, currently appearing (in four-foot cartwheel hats and purple dresses) for the defense in the Sinatra kidnaping case. To most men-laymen and lawmen alike-women are physically unfitted for the grueling ordeals of trial work, and emotionally "too kind and forgiving." In reaction to male prejudice, until fairly recently many women attorneys dressed mannishly, cussed like troopers-and thereby forfeited one of their most potent weapons: feminine intuition and charm...
...they veered west, and Captain Lorraine's training plane suddenly vanished. At the same time, residents in the East German village of Vogelsberg, 50 miles from the West German border, heard machine-gun and cannon fire overhead. Seconds later, they saw the U.S. jet, one wing shot away, cartwheel to earth...