Word: jerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim is a three-hump serpent). And then Slim developed his periscope neck by nostalgically trying to peer back over the hills toward the scenes of his childhood...
...years of the war quietly, became a bomber-pilot instructor, occasionally and unostentatiously visited Hollywood. In the fall of 1943, as commander of a B-24 squadron, he arrived in England. He led his outfit on 14 missions over Europe in a bomber named "Nine Yanks and a Jerk," was several times decorated, promoted. Finally, because Jimmy Stewart had administrative brains, he was made operations officer of a bomber group. From there it was only one more step to the top spot on Ted Timberlake's staff...
...American ground crew now stationed in the Ukraine worked at maintenance, spent its off hours learning some Russian and teaching the Russians U.S. slang. The first interchange of languages had already produced some startling results. One morning a Russian sentry greeted a U.S. colonel with a respectful: "Good morning, jerk...
Weight-lifting contests usually involve lifting a bar bell overhead by three methods: the two-hand snatch, the two-hand clean and jerk, the two-hand military press.* Atlas' share of this year's honors went to York's Emerick Ishikawa, a 23-year-old Japanese-American in the 123-lb. class. At the A.A.U. championships in Chattanooga, Tenn. he added 19¼ Ib. to the snatch record by lifting 193 Ib. He cleaned and jerked a record...
...Grand Island, Neb., a small cluster of people spied the candidate through the train window. Said Willkie's aide-decamp, boyishly exuberant Lem Jones, "They're waving at you." Willkie, engrossed in his talk, gave the platform crowd an absent jerk of the head, a quick flip of the hand-and went on talking. Newsmen thought of the Big Hello which Franklin Roosevelt would have given...