Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bells and set two world records in the process. "We rarely have such weights lifted," said the solemn Russian announcer as Anderson hoisted 402.41 Ibs. in the two-hand press. The crowd was still goggle-eyed when Paul handled a phe nomenal 425.565 Ibs. in the clean and jerk...
...otherwise . . ." The mob howled for blood; the colonel's hands were bound, and he was forced to kneel in the dust. As the executioner raised his sword, following an old custom, he gave the kneeling man a passing jab in the shoulder, making him jerk forward so that his neck was stretched out tautly for the downcoming stroke. A minute later the mob fell upon the decapitated body and tore it to pieces. The Imam of Yemen was even...
...unit to express the force of one G (the acceleration of gravity) acting on a body for one second. At Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico, where men are exposed to Gs for experimental purposes, the experimenters got in the habit of calling the needed unit a "jerk" or "jolt." A man who had taken four Gs for 20 seconds, for instance, was said to have taken 80 jolts...
...finally sent them home as devoted McCarranites. "What the hell," said one recently, "McCarran took me off the street when my belly had wrinkles in it. He fed me and clothed me and put me through law school and helped me get started in practice. What kind of a jerk would I be to turn on him now?" In sparsely populated Nevada, it didn't take many such faithful men to make an unbeatable machine...
...Homestead, studied the pros, and played the employees' course-nine tortuous holes on a mountainside called the "goat -course." The Sneads were poor (father Snead was a maintenance man in the Homestead's boiler room). In addition to caddying, Sam also worked as a soda jerk...