Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mr. Roosevelt!" He may or may not have realized how soon the cork was going to blow out. Far to the south the Jap tornado was engulfing Borneo and rolling into the Solomon Islands. In the middle of February Singapore fell as casually as a shrug. Then the Japs turned their fury back on the Philippines...
...dissolved Spain's proud contribution to the anti-Bolshevik war-by reclothing some 1,500 men as members of a new Spanish Legion in the Wehrmacht. Other blasts from Moscow spoke of oil and bread and strategic materials which Russia thought Spain was still sending Hitler. Franco could shrug; the outbursts were plainly directed at Russia's Allies, held no special meaning for Spain so long as they produced no change in London and Washington...
...cure. The film shows the lack of emotional security in homes robbed of their parents by war plants and rocked by the immeasurable restiveness created by war itself. Babies wake screaming in siren-haunted blackouts. Boys just below draft age go on alcohol, marijuana and obscene-book jags, shrug off the discipline of parents who earn no more than they do. Mothers find it next to impossible to advise teen-age daughters who, erotically, are almost as experienced as Mother...
...after the Government started to move against it, A.P. modified its by laws by reducing to 51% the vote necessary to override a veto. But this change, said the Court, "by no means opened" A.P. membership privileges to all, human nature being what it is. The Court's shrug: A.P. members would be unlikely to vote for a fellow member's competitor because "each will know that the time may come when he will himself be faced with the application of a competitor," But in a broader sense the Court ruled for the A.P. For the Court held...
Today, though Manhattan's swankest pub-crawlers flock to hear her, Mme. Alphand is already tired of professional life. Says she, with a Gallic shrug: "If I am not to sing, then I must sew, I must make hats or something." But she admits that she is not doing badly in the new world, says: "Heaven was very charming...