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Word: jerkingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should take Lat's comments for what they are: knee-jerk opposition to anything and everything gay, for reasons of fear, antipathy, or envy. --Derek T. Ho, '96 Senior Editor, Perspective

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat Should Eat His Own Words | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

...this is the case, it is a sad day in America. Sad because children in underprivileged neighborhoods have been so thoroughly conditioned to defend their pride with knee-jerk reactions, that they do so even when an act is born not of pity, but of simple kindness. And a world where kindness cannot exist is nowhere to live...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: The Torching of Norway Field | 9/30/1994 | See Source »

...Ambrose: "Sore teeth, can't see, knee jerk ((wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Trebek: "Tooth decay, nearsightedness, the last one has something to do with a knee jerk -- no knee jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Van Doren vs. the 1994 Quiz Show Dream Team | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...certain to break out as soon as it's clear that the Bosnian Muslims will start getting weapons, says TIME's Central Europe bureau chief, James L. Graff. Any remaining U.N. soldiers are not likely to be spared the wrath of the Serbs, he adds. "It's a knee-jerk reaction to want to lift the arms embargo," says Graff. "It may mean justice for the Muslims, but it also means a nasty war." Meanwhile, Russia now wants trade sanctions against the Serb-dominated Yugoslavia lifted. That country, the Russians say, has done its bit to punish the Bosnian Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOSNIA . . . U.N. TO LEAVE WITH THREAT OF WAR | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

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