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Word: jerk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance. Entwistle grim and impassive. Moon, mouth open looking happily about. Townshend concentrates hard but is not afraid to jerk and shudder with his arms and legs when he feels the will of the music. Daltrey convulsing. Townshend splits his guitar with one axe blow. Moon when drunk, as tonight personally supervises the destruction of his drums. Why do they...

Author: By Sal I. Imam, | Title: The Who | 8/13/1968 | See Source »

...older, you think better-up to the age of 22, that is. If you're a jerk at 22, you're always going to be stupid. If you're a genius, somewhere at 22 it's there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: What a Gas! | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Thigh-Slappers. Hope gave up journalism for a succession of other careers. As a soda jerk he was just a squirt. He laid an egg as a chicken plucker. As for boxing-well, as he says, "that's where I learned to waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...MBTA and jerk through Boston's murky underground and past the swamps of Revere Beach. After 35 minutes and two changes you emerge at Wonderland Park, a sprawling, brawling circus that is one of about 50 greyhound race tracks in the country...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phaile, | Title: Hard Day's Night at Wonderland | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...wives rushed to his drugstore on Chicago's South Side, where they found not only Walgreen-produced pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, but hot meals cooked to Myrtle's recipes. As business boomed, Charlie continued to innovate. One of his best known products emerged in 1921, when a soda jerk invented the malted milk shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: From Myrtle & Malteds | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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