In one, he captures the experience of being from a "jerkwater" town: a village so small that steam-train crews had to "jerk" water up from streams or from people holding buckets along the tracks because there was no water tower from which to refill the engine.

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The pattern has been a steady rise when European news flow is minimal, followed by knee-jerk corrections when the debt crisis flares up.

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Three, should there be any different style of policing, those are questions, they are not knee-jerk reactions because the one thing that I think a grown-up politician doesn't do is just come on the day after and say I've got all the answers because if so it would have been easy enough to do.

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Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk.

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Smith has gone to conquer a multitude of British records since taking up the sport, in her two chosen disciplines: the snatch and the clean and jerk.

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