Word: somersault
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...boys say that it never rains in Ann Arbor before 6 p.m., when football practice is over; Crisler won't let it. He seldom bawls anybody out, but when he does, it takes. Sample: "Confound it, if you want to be sensational, bounce the ball, turn a somersault, then pick...
Kelly also noted the acceptance by the N.C.A.A. of two former "stunt dives" as regular events, both packing high degrees of difficulty. Developed at Ohio State, a running double twisting forward one-and-a-half somersault, has been rated at 2.8, and a back one-and-one-half twisting somersault carries 2.6 as its multiple...
...Star," says McKelway, "is an old lady, and it would be unseemly for her to turn a somersault on the Mall. I don't think we're stodgy. Mr. Noyes used to say, 'Let them say we are stodgy and dull. At least, they know that our editorial columns cannot be bought...
...Communist Daily Worker ran the whole range all by itself. In seven successive daily editorials, it did a complete backward somersault and ended party-side up. No. 1 : "Wallace repeated the major fallacies advanced by most apologists for American imperialism. . . ." No. 3 : "He did say a lot of good things in his speech. . . " No. 5: "Mr. Wallace has correctly sensed the mood of our people." No. 7: Hallelujah, comrades...
Last week, in practice, Anderson thumped the big board at Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Station, sailed up and into a perfect double twisting forward one-&-a-half somersault-a dive he had invented himself. After that, it was no trouble to win the National A.A.U. high & low-board championships with comparatively easy jackknives and gainers. Said Anderson: "My sense of balance still isn't what it should...