Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auctioneer began by offering Farouk's mountain of stamps, one of the most important collections ever sold publicly. Sixty expert philatelists from all over the world bid briskly with a jerk of the thumb, a murmur in any of half a dozen languages, which the auctioneer swiftly understood. Said the buyer for America's Gimbels department-store chain: "The early part of the collection of Farouk's father shows the care and feeling that marks the collector. But Farouk's contribution is just a mixed-up accumulation." Added a European dealer who used to sell...
Doug's dark, rugged features and his massive 290 lbs. on a 5 ft. 9 in. frame caused a stir on Stockholm's streets. Ignoring the dangerous Swedish girls, he immediately set to practicing the two-hands championship lifts-the press, snatch, and clean and jerk.* Last week his big moment came. Hepburn faced the gargantuan defending world champion, Brooklyn's John Davis, in the heavyweight class (lifter's own weight unlimited). Planting his feet and unlimbering his tremendous biceps, Doug reached his goal. With three lifts totaling 1,030¼ Ibs., he beat Runner...
...feet, and end with it held above his head, arms fully extended. In the press, the bar is held for two seconds at shoulder level, then smoothly raised the rest of the way. The snatch calls for hoisting the bar in one continuous motion. In the clean and jerk, the bar is moved upward from the shoulders by a sudden arm-stiffening motion...
...theme: two lightly wounded soldiers are shamed back to the front by the death of another soldier. For the most part it reads well, but occasionally it slips into triteness ("That poor, sad bastard of a kid." . . . "Then he felt embarrassed, and he added, 'Now I sound like a jerk...
...blood was jetting out more than a foot. I was afraid the car would catch on fire, so I got my knife out of my pocket and went to work. The skin was not too hard to cut, but every time I chopped through a tendon I felt a jerk in the nerves of my neck. The cutting was made easier by the fact that bones in the arm were broken through. I just followed the line of the break with the blade of my knife...