Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wary. They considered drowning him. Finally they took him. shackled between three other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees. Hans Nagel, keeper of the Houston Zoo, was elected executioner. He approached to close range, raised a big-game rifle, fired. Black Diamond howled, tried to jerk away. Nagel fired again, could not penetrate the elephant's skull.* While the monster wildly trumpeted and twisted, Nagel kept on firing, exhausted all his ammunition. He asked for more but it was not until 60 shots had crashed into Black Diamond that he sagged and toppled. Circus performers...
...plane passes over the catapult the hook engages the contraption's rope (held horizontally by the vertical arms) and pulls. That pull releases the spring, which instantly projects the container from the trough at a speed of about 45 miles per hour. Such speed prevents a destructive jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer...
...five different ways of lifting weights. No weight can be considered "lifted" until it is as high as a man can reach. The one-or two-arm "snatch" consists of lifting it with a single motion of one or both hands. The one-or two-arm "clean and jerk" consists of lifting it with one or both hands, first to the chest, then jerking to above the head..The two-arm "military press" is complex. This consists in lifting it to the chest, taking a deep breath, counting two, then slowly raising it above the head...
...last week's contest Rohrer's record was to raise 170½ lb. in the one-arm snatch. In the one-arm clean and jerk he lifted 198 lb. and then later, feeling yet stronger, he lifted 203½ lb. This did not constitute a record because he did it on his fourth attempt (you only get three tries), and because in Switzerland lives a man who once lifted 230 lb. with one hand...
...Manger's records were 198 lb. in the two-arm military press, 264 lb. in the two-arm clean and jerk, 192½ lb. in the two-arm snatch...