Word: jerks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pronounced sow) also denotes what it sounds like: hog, jerk, liar or anything else derogatory-another bar girl contribution...
Friend of the Family, based on a Parisian stage smash entitled Patate, tells of a nonentity whose nickname means "potato nose," or, more loosely, jerk. Thanks to his longtime enemy, a prominent financier, he has borne that unfortunate nom de pomme since childhood. He avenges himself at last when he learns that the banker is having an affair with his teen-age daughter...
Congressmen offered the most pungent remarks. Sen. Dirksen said the demonstrations were "enough to make any person loyal to this country weep." Mississippi's Sen. Stennis urged the administration to "immediately move to jerk this movement up by the roots and grind it to bite." Sen. Kuchel said students who burned their draft cards were "sowing the seeds of treason...
Drub-a-drub-drub. As a preacher, O'Hara ran heavily to bile. He played on a vast range of peeves-from the present times ("The Age of the Jerk") to a movie producer who had hard words for one of his scripts (he even "bombed out of television"). O'Hara has no use for President Johnson ("An uninspiring, uninspired man, whom no one loathes and no one loves"), or Bobby Kennedy ("There is something pathetic about a man who turns on the charm when he has none"), or the general run of newspapermen ("Only the game...
...alumnus and faculty adviser of Delta Upsilon, I would rather have a black or yellow gentleman for a fraternity brother than a white jerk; and I do have brothers from all three races. But when any outsider tries to force my own or any other fraternity [June 25] to change its constitution or take in anyone whom it does not want, then he has me to fight...