Word: flippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diver Bill Murphy, last year's Eastern Seaboard three meter diving champion, hit his head on the board while doing an inward flip, his fourth dive of the day, in the three meter event. The junior champion broke his nose and suffered deep cuts across the brow of his head...
...East's top eight teams were seeded strictly according to their won-lost percentages. Harvard and B.U. both finished at .667, but a coin flip gave the fourth-place position and the accompanying home-ice advantage to the Crimson...
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...sure that most teen-agers such as myself will agree that even though we flip for the rock of today, we can still appreciate the tempo that is set by Mr. Zubin Mehta in the concert hall...
...five minutes of dazzling Salchows (jump and forward turn), Lutzes (jump and reverse turn) and flying splits. Then he went off with something he calls "the Bourkey"-an astonishing leap in which he kicks sideways, twirls, arches and floats as if suspended by wires. He decided against his "triple-flip" turn because of a pulled leg muscle. But the judges had seen enough; they gave him five 5.9s and one 6, good for third place and a slot on the U.S. Olympic team. At Grenoble, says Petkevich, "that triple flip goes back...