Word: jerk
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...Bowery knew better than that. There was a long, sullen silence. Then someone said: "Scram, jerk...
...surface, at least, Andrew Russell ("Drew") Pearson and Robert Sharon ("Bob") Allen were a team again. A few months ago the two Merry-Go-Roundmen were not speaking, but last week they joined to ask FCC to jerk a radio license from Hearst and give it to them. Neither would discuss their old feud or their new venture. Said redheaded, cavalry-cussing Colonel Allen: "Allen's relations with Pearson are strictly Allen's business . . . and he won't talk...
...Ivanissevich was smiling and the President was smiling, and they were both saying what fine countries the other represented. It was hard to remember that only a few months ago the State Department was spreading the idea that Argentina's President Juan Peron was nothing but a fascist jerk...
...look at Captain Wayne and-wham! Here's the real-life double of her own fictional hero. She yearns to tell him who she is and offer him the lead in the projected film. But the outspoken Captain has read her novel, thinks her hero is a thoroughgoing jerk...
...quit school, became a soda jerk, then an insurance investigator-until a slight mathematical mistake on his part cost his firm $40,000. Once a dentist hired him to mind his office during lunch hour; Danny busied himself making needlepoint designs in the woodwork with the dentist's drill. Eventually, he and Eisen took their harmony act to station WBBC, Brooklyn. At last Danny thought he was getting somewhere...