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Word: jerks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Randall: two better synonyms for "schnook" would be 1) jerk, and 2) schmo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

After a good natured warning about a wrist hold ("Don't get carried away now; but if you ever have to use it, give a good jerk and pop, it breaks."), an instructor demonstrated the evening's final highlight, the Boston Crab. The heels eventually join the head with obvious consequences. Everyone smiled appreciatively...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Nishimoto Style | 11/2/1955 | See Source »

...observe my religion very carefully." In time he went back to his faith. His return was not caused by any particular crisis, only "the crisis of living as an adult. I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...another and sound like I never took a breath." He carried diction to a point of passionate perfection. But what made Sinatra Sinatra, when all came to all, was his naive urgency and belief in what he was saying. As one bandleader put it: "Why, that dear little jerk. He really believes those silly words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...well-paced narrative (girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy does not marry girl) was not helped by the predictability of the incidents nor the faded charm of slick writing about young love. On TV, Kitty was just an old-fashioned tearjerker with not enough strength left to jerk the tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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