Word: jerk
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...have the choice for the first time of supporting a Republican or supporting a real jerk," said James M. Harmon '93, president of the club...
...seems to some that my upbringing has rendered me incapable of any genuine or independent thought. When I argue in favor of social programs, I am dismissed as a "limousine liberal" who has a knee-jerk reaction to the poor that is steeped in class guilt. But when I say I believe that some works of literature are timeless classics, I am dismissed as typically conservative, classist, and ethnocentric. Any substantive arguments I make remain unaddressed...
...fluent in Franglais and in Japlish. It really is possible for an un-self-made man, arriving in Paris, to ask a mademoiselle for a rendezvous and then take her for le fast food and le dancing and even, perhaps, le parking. But later she may call him un jerk, and he may get upset if he doesn't know that the term, in French, means an expert dancer...
...dealt with this in a very thoughtful manner," says Financial Vice President Robert H. Scott. "He hasn't made a knee-jerk reaction. Instead he's taken very seriously the institution's responsibility to society...
...child's body turns rigid, the eyes roll back, and the limbs begin to jerk. These are the frightening signs of a febrile seizure. Triggered by a high fever, often during an infectious illness such as tonsillitis or flu, this type of convulsion is caused by violent nerve storms in the brain. About 130,000 of the 4 million children born each year in the U.S. will have at least one febrile seizure by the time they turn seven...