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    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • They were hand totting those huge glasses of booze and a Tequila bottle that had them stumbling and at one point they were jumping around and turning summersaults while hanging from the upper hand rails, screaming and caring on as if they were not on a public bus but at a private, unseen party house.

    On the decline of civility 2009

  • Her latest effontery in categorizing the health care debate in semantical summersaults "" Obamas Death Panels "" and the inuendoes about her challenged child and old parents is an assault to the intelligence of the American public. bob

    CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping 2009

  • Unlike those who hike and ski safely upon the slopes, knowing the dangers and proceeding with knowledge and caution, the fundamentalist occupies an illusory peak while doing interpretative summersaults that are liable to cause landslides.

    There Is No Slippery Slope James F. McGrath 2010

  • If it was/is so worthless why was Clinton doing summersaults to try and snag it?

    Edwards: "Democratic Voters Have Made Their Choice, And So Have I" 2009

  • Heck, even Rush had to do summersaults today to "explain" away McCAin's 2013 remarks.

    McCain Blasts Obama As Unfit To Defend America 2009

  • I can't even tell you how shocked I was when they put me in front of the uneven bars, the vault (to do a freakin 'handspring off the horse, or whatever it's called) and the balance beam (to do the aforementioned cartwheels and summersaults) and expected me to rock it out.

    general tso's checkin' 2008

  • Well... not when a 50 mph gust blows you me off the road, front wheels hits the sand, bars twist, back wheel summersaults over the front of the bike and I've got Goat Head Rash all up my left side.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jeremy Duerksen 2008

  • But if John McCain were to select Mike Huckabee as a running mate, or be seen performing philosophical summersaults to please Dr. Dobson, it will be the last straw.

    Are Five Loaves the Same As 10 Half-Loaves? 2008

  • I go into it assuming it's going to be basic floor stuff - cartwheels, summersaults, ribbon dancing, whatever.

    general tso's checkin' 2008

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