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The music squeezed out into the room in short herky-jerky hiccup spasms.
The Gift 2009
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She was recently divorced from an alcoholic and venturing on a new career, and she hadn't seen some of her family members for quite some time so she was hopeful that the reunion and subsequent conversations would be warm, genuine and gentle and not one of manic, herky, jerky discussions and actions.
Carole Bennett, MA: Getting Ready for 2012 -- Doing an Emotional Housecleaning MA Carole Bennett 2011
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Underneath that green trajectory of putative success is a modest, herky-jerky blue curving line, representing the 40,000 U.S. troops Gates, Petraeus, Mullen, and company were pressuring the president to surge into Afghanistan.
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some Tom Engelhardt 2010
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Underneath that green trajectory of putative success is a modest, herky-jerky blue curving line, representing the 40,000 U.S. troops Gates, Petraeus, Mullen, and company were pressuring the president to surge into Afghanistan.
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some Tom Engelhardt 2010
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Underneath that green trajectory of putative success is a modest, herky-jerky blue curving line, representing the 40,000 U.S. troops Gates, Petraeus, Mullen, and company were pressuring the president to surge into Afghanistan.
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some Tom Engelhardt 2010
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I was hoping for an actual response rather than you just running away from the line of scrimmage to do your herky-jerky dance in the end zone instead.
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How many of the problems were endemic to the script as originally written, and how many were created by the herky-jerky production?
Joe Johnston Talks About Making the Wolfman: Indecision is a Killer | /Film 2010
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She was recently divorced from an alcoholic and venturing on a new career, and she hadn't seen some of her family members for quite some time so she was hopeful that the reunion and subsequent conversations would be warm, genuine and gentle and not one of manic, herky, jerky discussions and actions.
Carole Bennett, MA: Getting Ready for 2012 -- Doing an Emotional Housecleaning MA Carole Bennett 2011
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Robotic herky jerk eeek dancing like a man with palsy on step aerobics ...
For The Attention Of Lish Dennis Mahagin 2011
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Underneath that green trajectory of putative success is a modest, herky-jerky blue curving line, representing the 40,000 U.S. troops Gates, Petraeus, Mullen, and company were pressuring the president to surge into Afghanistan.
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some Tom Engelhardt 2010
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