Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Istel has imported improvements. The jolt of the opening chute is eliminated by the use of a German invention, a sleeve that slowly deploys the inflating canopy instead of letting it snap open with a jerk. Open gores, or pie-shaped sections cut out of the canopy, developed by the British and Russians, permit the parachutist to steer by tugging on the wooden toggles attached to the risers. He insists that for the first five jumps the chutes be opened automatically by a static line attached to the aircraft. After that, the adventurous jumper can essay the free fall...
Seeing Is Becoming. Switching from taking to giving ruins Harry's love life. "Those who once moved silkily toward him began to jerk, stumble, twitch and fall." Sympathy and empathy for all his fellow creatures sets in. He becomes what he sees. He limps in the presence of the halt. His stomach bloats. His hair falls out. He becomes ugly. He dies-longing to be his old self-contained self once more, but unable to cure himself of his disease...
...John Birch Society. But if Pegler has lost his outlets, he has lost none of his gift for invective and his rogues' gallery is as crowded as ever. Nelson Rockefeller, he told an interviewer last week, is an "arrogant, dangerous man." Bobby Kennedy is a "mean little jerk who never earned a thing in his life." As for Bobby's brother, "I am selective about my friends. If Kennedy comes to town tomorrow, I'm getting the hell out of here...
Marguerite shows up on the chaise again, surrounded by sophomoric sycophants, her elderly ducal paramour in the background. Enter Armand. With no gravity-defying leaps, but pedestrianly, and with a disconcerting knee jerk, he moves in on Marguerite. It is love at first sight...
...feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center, Therapist Glenn J. Doman treats partly paralyzed patients by training them to "capture" reflex movements by a conscious effort. An obvious one is the knee jerk. The therapist provokes this by hitting the knee with a little rubber mallet. The nerve impulses involved travel only as far as the spinal cord, and the patient cannot make the movement of his own volition. But after willing himself to do it often enough, the patient contributes some movement...