Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everybody expected she would some day, Russia demanded Bessarabia from Rumania last week. And as everybody expected he would, King Carol II gave in. That much of what went on in the Balkans last week was accepted with a shrug by sophisticates in Realpolitik. Everything else was surprising...
They would say with a shrug of their shoulders: "Well, Britain and France brought it on themselves. That Treaty of Versailles. . . ." For the first time in many years, that argument is no longer being made. . . . They are saying that if Germany can't beat France and England without raping those little nations, she ought to have the grace to take her licking...
...week's end many a citizen was ready to shrug off the whole business. Then slippery Father Coughlin popped up again in the Christian Front news, blandly disavowed his earlier disavowal. Said he (in a Sunday sermon) : "While I do not belong to any unit of the Christian Front, nevertheless, I do not disassociate myself from that movement. I reaffirm every word which I have said in advocating its formation; I reencourage the Christians of America to carry on in this crisis for the preservation of Christianity and Americanism. . . . We will visit these prisoners with our prayers. ... If they...