Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitcher's eye. He must cast 100 ft. and more, often laying his goof within a foot of snags. His fingers must be sensitive and quick. A steelhead does not strike: he nudges the line as gently as a minnow. The expert recognizes the split second to jerk his rod and sink the hook. Then the whole river seems to explode...
...Wise guys! I open up the doors at six o'clock in the morning. One day I'm making coffee. A maniac comes in. 'Hey, jerk,' he says, 'gimme a cupa coffee.' Jerk! You're not in business to fight, right? A physical altercation can spoil the nickels. 'Derelict,' I say, 'don't disturb my equanimity.' So again he insults me-a hollow hulk like that. So I say to him: 'Your idiocy is very refreshing.' So he gets sore and wants to fight...
...navigator of a Flying Fortress, Captain Richard Davisson has 24 missions over Europe to his credit, has returned from all unharmed. Last week, in an air-base privy, Fortressman Davisson gave the chain a hurried jerk, brought down a Royal Doulton tank on his unhelmeted head, suffered an angry head gash. From barracks comrades came unsympathetic jeers, no recommendations for the Purple Heart...
...those Germans who went to the polls voted for the Nationalist, Catholic, Social Democratic and Communist Parties. The Nazi exchequer was empty and Hitler told Goebbels he was thinking of suicide. It was then that powerful, anti-democratic Germans holding the strings of statecraft decided to jerk Hitler up into power...
This week the Gannett Washington bureau opened with a good, hardworking, conservative newspaperman as its head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...