Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands. Or the fit may be a grand mal, the epileptic uttering a loud shout and dropping like a log to the ground, face pale, eyes rolling, hands clenched, legs spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after which the epileptic grows limp, breathes with a heavy rasp, drops into deep unconsciousness...
...sudden, doctor, my ears begin to buzz. The room swirls around me. My eyes jerk and I can't keep them still. I reel, and if I don't catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...
...Schumann will be the starter at guard against the Army with Lane and Brookings close behind him in the list of line men. Everything points to Schumann, for it would be pretty unusual to have a man in the "A" lineup two days before the game and then jerk him at the last minute. Furthermore, there seems little doubt about the backfield. Bilodeau, Ecker, Ford, and Blackwood appear to have the assignments...
...clearance drive in Rome Benito Mussolini bounded to the roof of a moldering hovel, swung a housewrecker's pick with spectacular results. As Il Duce's suspenders snapped and he grabbed for his trousers, the crumbling roof gaped open at his feet and fellow Fascists had to jerk him back to safety...
...goal if not to build a football team? Quake property, the eastern coaches rear to meet the Yale chimpanzees on the gridiron. Their boys would have no chance at all against a team who see players could leap mine fact in the air on a line "buck or Jerk down a runner with a single hairy paw. Chicago Daily Tribune...