Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...security never lasts. Beneath the surface stability lie fierce passions and unrest that could explode and return the world to the tense place it has been for the last 45 years. Internal changes in Russia or China could jerk the world back into turmoil overnight. Situations in other areas, such as Yugoslavia, could more slowly drag nearby countries into...
...means should this editorial be construed as knee-jerk council bashing. It is, in fact, imperative for the council that Prabhu come forward and own up to her actions. Only then will the council be able to put this sorry episode behind...
Both analysts criticized Perot, and Beckelprofessed a personal dislike for the Texasbillionaire, calling him "that jug-eared jerk fromDallas" and "the biggest fraud who ever lived...
What make WASP maleness so different? The knee-jerk liberal answer, white male hegemony, doesn't explain it all. Note that the women complaining about the Boston clubs weren't saying the men excluded them from the power networks; in fact, many women said, the men were quite welcoming. No, it was the culture that turned them off, not because it was sexist like the Tailhook Convention but simply because it reminded them of men bonding together without women...
...Miller's own story, he began at the beginning--as a queer "spermlet" swimming upstream in search of an egg to fertilizer. Then, having in a sense created himself, he passed through an infancy surrounded by "mini dykes and fags" to puberty, when he "tried to use Noxzema to jerk off," to AIDS and the election of Ronald Reagan. By this time, he was spitting out his words in an angry spray of saliva that drifted over the first few rows of the audience...