Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeking answers to the growing violence, TIME in knee-jerk fashion turns to the defunct and discredited psychiatrists. Psychiatrist Ziporyn attributes the growing violence to a "... moving from a time of restraints back to total liberty...
...letter was a complaint from an organization of Harvard-Radcliffe Chicanos about a publicity poster to a Harvard mixer. Somehow from a "Brother Chico" poster stemmed allegations of sophisticated institutional racism and a hemophilic knee-jerk bleeding taking us all the way to the concerns of the Third World...
Missing: Genu (L.), an anatomical region commonly known as the knee; still extant figuratively in the kitchen, as in "housewife's _______," and in the movie house, as in Claire's _______; also still virile verbally in compounds like " _______ jerk " and " _______deep " and in relating measurement, as in "_______ -high to a grasshopper"; but generally not seen in the flesh since around 1970, when it was flaunted by trend-trippers from Carnaby Street to cannery...
...been chipping and putting we would have been in the thing," Donovan said, voicing the complaint of every golfer who has ever succumbed to a whiskey jerk...
CONSPIRACY runs rampant. There is grumbling in the kitchen, muttering on the back porch, gibbering in the parlor. Back-stage phone-calls jerk marionettes out of their dangling sleep and send them prancing into places of power. Zombies lurch forward. Who is Nancy Reagan anyway? And what dark beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born...