Word: jerks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...
...reconstruction." Red China's muscled minions, according to the Peking press, "resolutely pledged themselves to overcome all difficulties and all individualist ideas existing in their innermost minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just then I looked down at the responsible comrades of our country's athletic association. This indeed meant the ideas of the party were in me, encouraging me. This strengthened my determination...
...Felt Like a Jerk." In a sense, Trimble's series arose from a sense of frustration. Arkansas-born Vance Trimble was just 14 when he started tracking down personals for the Okemah (Okla.) Leader. He never got to college, shuttled instead around the Southwest from city room to city room in the '30s before landing with the Houston Press, rising to managing editor, and in 1955 going to work for Scripps-Howard. In Washington with the title of news editor for the Scripps-Howard bureau, Trimble was tied to a desk from...
Sebbie shrugged. "Eh, Sometimes I sneak into a B.C. game, if it's not too important. It's pretty hard to get in around here. You're the first guy to give me a ticket this year. The last guy I went with was really a jerk. I bet no girl would go to a football game with him. You're o.k. though...
...feet are slightly spread and never shifted, and the weight is lifted in two smooth movements: from floor to chest, then to arms' length overhead. The snatch, in which the weight is lifted from floor to the over head position in one explosive movement. The clean-and-jerk. in which the weight is hoisted neck-high while the lifter drops into a squat or split, then "jerked" aloft as the legs are straightened...