Word: somersault
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Indeed, even freshmen accustomed to slippery conditions were having problems yesterday. Jonathan Roosevelt '91, a Cambridge native, said that he was running through the Square yesterday with a new mug his mother had given him. "I slipped, flipped a somersault, landed on my butt and broke...
...wait. There are still a lot of tricks to be learned. Any biker worthy of his wheels knows the "Vander roll," a forward somersault over the handlebars as you pull the bike along behind you. Then there is the "cherry picker," in which you lock the brakes and bounce on one wheel as if the bike were a pogo stick...
...fought to continue the confrontation. Some complained that Reagan's measure failed to include a proposal to put South Africa on notice that the U.S. will impose even stronger sanctions if Preto- ria refuses to work toward re- form. Scoffed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The President did a somersault this weekend. Unfortunately, he landed on his head." Determined not to let an effective political issue slip away, California Senator Alan Cranston declared, "The Republican Party is going to look weak on apartheid...
...Prince Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was, for one thing, strikingly handsome--possessed of a "beautiful nose" and "fine teeth," as Victoria noted in 1836 when the two cousins, both 16, first met. He was a dutiful, romping father. He taught the art of the somersault. He played with kites. He enjoyed having nine children in 17 years almost as much as Victoria...
...their mental bets, a slight, pretty, 20-year-old Canadian named Sylvie Bernier found a new consistency to support her delicate and precise style, and took the lead midway through the competition. McCormick, who had overrotated and made a splashing entry on her eighth dive, a reverse 2½ somersault with a tuck, which had given her trouble before, had a chance to win the gold with a superlative score on her tenth and last dive. ("Divin' is just landin' on your head ten times out of ten," she had said after the preliminary round, in her husky...