Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white panorama of St. Moritz, and directly below-extending a sinister invitation-the village cemetery. One false move would put him in it. A few yards further, he roared into a sharp right turn, had no trouble until his skeleton sled went too high into Shuttlecock. With a desperate jerk, he brought it down. Said he afterwards: "I still had two fingers of space between the edge of the bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough." An inch more and he would have crashed. Six times he made the descent of Cresta...
Pete Zikarian, former soda-jerk but now a haberdasher who, unlike another wellknown ex-member of the trade, is making a tidy go at it, likes to take business sitting down for a change. And when he stretches out in the Crimson Men's Shop at 36 Dunster Street he likes to look at Crimson Varsity football players, as well as the cash register...
...Strenuous Life. In Springfield, ΙΙΙ., Soda Jerk Herman Gronewald was rushed to the hospital after he wrenched his back whipping cream...
...jails with suspected conspirators. At first, few Czechs in Prague seemed to realize that Slovakia was just the place for a conspiracy, because the Slovakian democratic Party was the biggest singly stumbling block to absolute Communist power in Czechoslovakia. But last week they came to with a jerk. Ferjencik named as the bomb plot's' ringleaders the two general secretaries of the Slovak Democratic Party. They were Jan Kempny and Milos Bugar-both Catholics, both members of the Czechoslovak Parliament. All at once it was terribly clear that, if these two were disposed of, the Slovak Democratic Party...
...story that shambled out of a Manhattan night court was enough to jerk a tear from any baseball fan's eye. Of the 18 bleary Bowery bums charged with loitering "while apparently intoxicated," one gave the name of Marquard. The judge had tenderly inquired: "Aren't you the famous 'Rube?'" Yes, the prisoner croaked, he was "Ol' Rube," who won 19 straight games for the Giants back in 1912. The record had never been broken, but "Rube" was broke. "The magistrate," said an A.P. dispatch, "took a $5 bill from his billfold, handed...