Word: jerks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jerk of the 120-ft. nylon rope brought Dave up short, painfully bruising and wrenching his ribs, and dragged Jim, ax and all, to within a foot of the brink. An hour later, Dave dragged himself back up. He and Jim found a cave in a crevasse and spent the night there. The feet of both were frostbitten, Dave's so badly that when he rapped them with his knuckles "the sound was hollow and wooden...
...Atlanta, on his way to Mobile to take command of a new Flying Enterprise, Captain Kurt Carlsen, besieged by reporters, asked them: "Why . . . pay any attention to me? I'm just another plain jerk. Maybe a bigger jerk than anybody else, when you get down to brass tacks." Asked about a pin in his lapel, he explained: "I'm an honorary member of the Girl Scouts of America ... I understand now the Boy Scouts are going to give my wife...
...duke is an outrageous host. The wine they admire, he knows will not "travel." Wheedled out of him and carted home, it tastes like vinegar. The villa's glittering bathrooms are tiled with condescending instructions: "Press handle down, hold for one minute and release with a slight jerk." The ten-year-old footman has been taught to speed departing guests with the final salute: "You-goddamned-son-of-a-bitch...
...these men feel about the war? A grimy, bearded infantryman spoke for thousands when he said to me: "I guess it all depends on how you look at it. The days it's my turn to go out on patrol and some jerk over there cuts down at me with a burp gun or whatever-why, then it's a hell of a big war for me that day. And the days I get to just lay around the bunker-with maybe only ten or 15 rounds incoming all day, and the Chinaman stays over...
...called him a jerk and not without reason...