Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrying of essential war materials ... is distinctly contrary to the policy of the Government." Off the record, New Dealers said that almost every U. S. merchant ship today has a Government mortgage string tied to it in one way or another, added that the President is prepared to jerk the strings...
...whole show suffers from this undertone of aimlessness. Suddenly a large globe begins to jerk around on its axis to the tune of some languorous melody, and the audience is borne away to Casinario, a tiny country clinging to the coast of some as yet undiscovered continent. The state is named after its central institution, the Casino. When the roulette wheel stops spinning and depression stalks the land, an S. O. S. is sent to the Last Billionaire, a native son named M. Banco...
Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...
...begins to twitch and jerk and kick into the air in the most embarrassing manner at the most inopportune times...
...thousand dollars!" rejoined scrawny Mrs. Johnson as she gave the fur piece about her neck an impatient jerk...