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Word: jerkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harlem. When Diana Ross, who is in her 30s, decided she wanted to play Dorothy, who was a young girl in the original, there was another transmogrification. "Since we decided she's a black adult," says Writer Joel Schumacher, "we couldn't just make her a little jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Yellow Brick Road to Profit | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...talk to Savit? why should I? Would you if you didn't have to? The guy's a jerk. He covered hockey for two years for The Crimson without even knowing the difference between icing and offsides...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Turning the Beat Around | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...free again," says Leslie E. Acsay, president of Hungarian House in New York. "But Hungary is in the same position it was in 30 years ago-the Russians are still there." Echoing this theme, Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole has charged that Carter is engaged in a needless "knee-jerk" human rights effort. Dole sued in federal court to block Carter's move until the Senate approved, but last week a judge in Kansas City. Kansas turned him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Return of an Ancient Symbol | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Please get that jerk Savit off the newspaper. He's the worst example of journalism I've ever seen. And not only that, he's not even funny. Either Savit goes or I'll start reading the Independent. If it ever comes, that is. Yours truly, Savoir is Unfair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Final Predix | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

...city council, said last week the platform "locks the candidates into positions" without enabling them to respond to new evidence bearing on the issues. Clem, who ran with the CC '75 slate, says he wants to "maintain integrity and flexibility, and avoid restricting the city council into knee-jerk reactions...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: A Slate of Reformers | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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