Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William O. Douglas Jr., 28, son of the Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...
schmendrick (Yiddish)-a clumsy jerk...
...theory that it is better to be thrown clear of a flipping car than pinned beneath it, the drivers wear no safety belts, rely on heavy leather jackets for protection. Brakes are sometimes rudimentary; the steering is so sensitive that the slightest nudge of the wheel is enough to jerk the nose around. Most important, a 125-lb., 18-h.p. go kart can match a red-hot Porsche "Spyder" in weight-to-horsepower ratio, and is just as likely to spin out on high-speed curves. After turning two laps in a go kart, Sam Hanks, winner...
Then all of a sudden, she saw some jerk she knew on the other side of the lobby. Some guy in one of those very dark grey flannel suits and one of those checkered vests. Strictly Ivy League. Big Deal...
...that undergraduates have as little contact with them as possible. The two groups meet uselessly in most graduate courses, where the graduate student is carefully insulated from shock by such devices as clandestine double grading systems and the unwillingness of most course instructors to tell him he is a jerk and give him a D. But no matter, this is Dean Elder's problem. (We say this every day, and his wilderness cry goes...