Word: jerking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crafty reinsman who among other things, excels at a tactic that might be called the Hervé Hop. Rather than throw his horse off balance by using the reins to turn his head, Filion steers through heavy traffic by hopping his sulky two feet sideways with a strong jerk of his hips and legs...
...cats have stayed away. Such is the condition of the treasury at the Democratic National Committee that it has been unable to pay a considerable bill owed to American Airlines. After Committee Treasurer Donald Petrie hung up on an important representative of the airline and called him a "jerk" to boot, American canceled the committee's twelve credit cards. Key staffers are now planning to pay as they...
...application of lethal firepower." Much of the air war is now automated and instantaneous. B-52s move in an electronic "bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence of troops is revealed by tiny air-dropped sensors no larger than a twig, including magnetic metal detectors...
...that the protest is directed against a single target. Most importantly, "strike" means that in order to win our demands, we intend to deprive our opponent of something which he finds indispensable. The trouble is that so far, we at Harvard have used the word "strike" in a knee-jerk and fetishistic manner, without really asking ourselves whom the target is, how long our action must take to be effective, and what we must take from our opponent before he realizes that his current course of action will backfire against...
Kelly decided to bag college hockey next year and coach a WHA team, but he has neither players nor a rink to play in at this point, and his decision prompted one of his more outspoken detractors, the Bruin's Derek Sanderson, to describe Kelly as a "jerk" and a "fool" in the Boston Globe...