Word: headstand
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...favorite position these days is the headstand. "If you get up in the morning and do a headstand right away, you definitely get the juices flowing...
...tell them to tumble forward? You can't just ask politely. This is not something elephants do in the wild. It is not easy to teach this move to a human, much less a mammal the size of a dumptruck. The other elephant tricks were expected, but the headstand seemed supernatural...
...which he lacked actors; but the merging of more important roles, the cutting and chopping of important scenes, and the self-consciousness of each departure from Shakespeare unnerve the audience and often make the play's plot incomprehensible. Sellars might just as well have bounded on stage, done a headstand, cried "look at me!" before the curtain rose, and let the play proceed with a modicum of sensibility...
...Headstand, spirals in the Twist...
...then one of the American League's most respected umpires; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. Once, as a Red Sox catcher, Berry blocked a dash to home plate by Babe Ruth. Berry knocked the Babe so hard that he did a mid-air headstand, landed in a heap and was out of the game two weeks recovering from the injury. "But in spite of all I'd done to him," recalled Berry, "he scored...