Word: somersaulted
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...that a family movie should have: a devoted father (Dan Dailey) who can sing & dance, a doting mother (Anne Baxter) who can dance and act, and a sprightly moppet of a daughter (Shari Robinson) who, like most Hollywood prodigies, can do almost everything except the two-and-a-half somersault on a flying trapeze...
...diving is nothing short of superb. Vicki Draves is an extraordinary performer, and her husband Lyle is almost as good. But the finest dive of the evening is performed by someone I have never heard of, and whose name I cannot remember. It is a combination backward somersault--two and one half forward somersault--full twist plunge off a board which could not have been more than 12 feet above the pool...
Rankin expected them to do: an ignominious somersault. On two roll calls, the House reversed itself, voted to keep Rankin's proposition alive. Crowed Rankin: "A revival of righteousness...
Next to London's weather, the thing that bothered Californians most was the look on Londoners' faces; to West Coasters they seemed vaguely uninterested in life. One night on a London bus, a Los Angeles miler turned a somersault and hung upside down from two straps. "It worked," he boasted later. "Their mouths dropped open all the way down to their knees...
...bipartisan approach to the Palestine problem, which would permit the U.S., without much clatter, to go back on its support for partition. But in an election year, when the big Jewish vote in New York was of prime importance to both parties, there was little chance of an official somersault in U.S. policy...