Word: twerps
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...senator, for his part, thinks Dolan is a twerp. Weicker scoffs at smug predictions that the Republican victories of 1980 portend an era of extreme conservatism in America. He calls Dolan "wacky," even "repugnant," and recalls that he was never very good as a go-fer anyway...
...knew the guys on the Harvard team from way back," the graduate of BC High School said. "Now the old cronies come back, and I ask them how they're doing and they think of the little twerp sitting in the stands...
...little twerp" grew into a high school All-American by his junior year, although he concentrated mainly on his AAU swimming since the high school competition consisted of "jokers wearing boxer shorts...
...wedlock. He wants to divorce Ruth and make an honest woman of Sally. He agonizes over his children. He revels in sweet pain and postures about the divided allegiances that plague him. He also collects locks of Sally's hair. In short, Jerry strikes the reader as a twerp of twerps. At their trysts the two revert to sheer teen-agery, '50s style. They find themselves ravished by love lyrics that come over the radio. They exchange mysterious, monosyllabic endearments. "Hey." "Hi." Jerry gives up smoking. Updike reports: "He wanted his kisses to taste clean." Cupid...
...typical Garnett phrase like "bother the fellow" has become "the hell with him." And those elaborate patronymics have disappeared, so that Tatyana Pavlovna is now simply Mrs. Prutkov. But in his effort to be up-to-date, MacAndrew also afflicts us with such colloquialisms as "know-how" and "twerp." Mrs. Garnett's simple statement, "Don't be angry, Prince, I'll leave you," turns into "Take it easy, Prince, I'll make myself scarce...