Word: acrobatic
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...took to the fight with gusto. The rival performers matched each other acrobat for acrobat, lady fiddler for lady fiddler, fight champ for fight loser (as Sullivan and Allen did after the Patterson-Rademacher fight) and, in the end, even blow for blow. When the singer socked the comedian, remarked one character, "it was like George Washington spitting on the American flag...
...cousin of England's onetime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, she took the veil of a Roman Catholic contemplative order in 1914, left it with a papal rescript in 1941 when she finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces...
Hurrying home to meet the rebellion, Coleman lost no time blasting the "rump session" attended by "a pitiful minority of wild-eyed saboteurs." Chairman Evans is "a well-known enemy of this administration" and Vice Chairman McClellan "the greatest constitutional acrobat of all times," and both "might as well prepare for a battle royal, right down to the precinct level...
...been outlined to John Foster Dulles at the NATO meeting last December, further developed by Sandys on his recent trip to Washington, and discussed in general terms at Bermuda. Truth was Washington reaction was somewhat like that of an audience about to witness a death-defying leap. The acrobat says what he is going to do. The announcer says when he is going to do it. But when he actually does it, the audience gasps just the same. Similarly, the Pentagon gasped rather than shook at the news. As usual, the chief Washington concern was whether the British cut might...
...worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially odd, but the times make everyone seem to be living off the top of his head. Ludwig divides his time between beautiful Geneviève at the insane asylum and a levelheaded, strong-bodied girl acrobat who wants a man able to buy some groceries. In the end, he loses both...