Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin dyspeptic Londoner. One evening he and his wife attended a neighborhood cinema. As he took his seat, his foul breath caused others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting...
...landed Junker as to lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul. Last week Oscar, dozing on the President's roof with one leg tucked under his wing, straightened up with a jerk and a squawk as a roaring Mercedes sped up the long white road and out jumped Adolf Hitler...
...world more sympathetic to Soviet officialdom than at any time in the past 15 years. Shrewd Comrade Litvinoff realized that this time it was necessary for him to do more than embarrass his disarmament colleagues for the benefit of the Moscow Press. He presented, therefore, two concrete proposals to jerk the delegates upright in their seats...
...Althouse's bleating but now, at 44, his voice is perfectly controlled, rich with color. Thoroughly exciting was the scene where he pulls Wotan's sword out of the ash tree. He jumped up on the table, grasped the hilt firmly, steadied himself and gave a mighty jerk that was felt throughout the audience...
...Philip Frances Samuels, Baconian scholar, editor, and independent book vendor, uncrooked one elbow from around a copy of "Ear ce Rammed," peered intently through his spectacles, and poked a long bony finger at the CRIMSON reporter. "Sure, I'm still here," said he, indicating with a jerk of his head the irregular piles of volumes stacked along the side of his hole in the wall at 30a Boylston St. "Sure, the cops've got nothing on me. They're just trying to scare me out. I don't have to have any license...