Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Withering Knighthood. In Buffalo, Judge Michael Zimmer fined Store Manager Eugene Cyr $50 for slapping a woman with "too much force," although he agreed there was "no doubt some provocation" when the woman called him a "stupid jerk...
...closeups, fadeouts and greater fluidity, the presentation also contributed Otis Riggs's clean, spare scenery which released play and players from the Old Vic's 19th century picture-book designs. John Neville, in the role that Olivier once dismissed with Mercutio-like disdain ("Romeo is really a jerk"), was carved out of beaverboard; he crashed parties and climbed vines gracefully enough, but gave more a bloodless recitation than a performance full of the juices of life. But Claire Bloom, 26, was a prize Juliet who made even her more hackneyed passages sound fresh. Looking no more than...
...nightmare: he was bored to tears. Mary grew madder, Charles grew sadder-and Londoners became used to the undignified spectacle of drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful to have seen the last of a "damned, canting, unmasculine, unbawdy age." Mary, ten years...
...National A.A.U.'s weight-lifting championships and casually picked a total of 1,175 Ibs. off the floor to set a new world record, broke two other marks in the process. Anderson's performance: 335 Ibs. in the snatch, 440 Ibs. in the clean and jerk. He pressed only 400 Ibs., just missing his own record of 408 Ibs. ¶ Keeping up the clever, carefully planned tennis that has made her virtually unbeatable since she started her foreign tour last fall, the U.S.'s Althea Gibson (TIME, June 4) staved off a last-set rally by Britain...
...phonetic change from the "s" to the "sh" sound is contemporary and popular as shmmo, schlamiel, sham. Synonyms are glop, shmo, jerk, goof, sad sack, "Marty," poorish...