Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement you describe, and which I did, is not a spring, but a snap-up from the back, the upward impetus being given by a quick pressure of the back of the head against the ground...
...headspring, which, also, I did among other turns, is an entirely different movement. The acrobat stands erect on his feet, bends forward until the top of his head touches the ground and springs over to his feet after the manner of the handspring; but hands do not touch the ground, nor shoulders, nor any part of the body except the top of the head...
...London. More than 100,000 people were waiting for Captain Lindbergh at the Croydon Aerodrome. They broke down police barriers, swarmed on the landing-field as soon as his plane was sighted. He swooped down looking for barren ground, saw none, returned skyward. On the second attempt, his plane touched ground, but was forced to rise again because hero-worshipers insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded...
...Australia. He may return to the air mail service. He may enter the airplane manufacturing business, perhaps in the Ryan Airlines, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., which-built his monoplane. Said Benjamin F. Mahoney, president of the Ryan company: "Lindbergh flies, but he keeps his feet on the ground...
...Soviet Government. Because Mr. Baldwin is a good, sturdy Britisher, his statements carried weight, and were very generally accepted by the British public as proof that Great Britain had a perfect, technical right to cancel her Trade Agreement and diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia last week on the ground that the Russians had consistently misused the privileges accorded them...