Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing and only rarely stoops to outright chinoiserie. The Monk from Shu is especially effective in its delicate evocation of "icy bells." The climactic poem, however, fails to give the work a proper finish. The fate of the red cockatoo in the poem is a half-bitter smile and shrug...
...huge Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., the world's biggest sulphur producer. Texas' well in Mexico was its first find after four discouraging years of drilling at a cost of $6,000,000, and even then it was not a large deposit. Says Bill Brady with a shrug: "You work like hell to find it. If you don't, you don't. [We had] the luck of the Irish...
...Martian lost no time popping a political question. He wanted to know, says Allingham ("Needless to say I could not understand his words, but his gestures were clear enough"), whether the Earth people would start another war. Allingham says he was only able to shrug hopefully in reply. After indicating that he had visited both Venus and the Moon says Allingham, the Martian also asked if Earthmen would soon reach the Moon. When Allingham nodded, the Martian's broad brow clouded up. "And who can blame them?" asks the author. "We have not yet proved ourselves fit to rule...
...first-rate. But in building up the campus, he had apparently neglected a few essentials. His control had been so tight that the university had become "unquestionably the lengthened shadow of President Byrd." As a result, said the association, there was a tendency on the part of facultymen to "shrug off" responsibility and for departments to suffer from "sterility and lack of ferment." In spite of much improvement since it was last inspected in 1935, the Medical School was in many respects 15 years behind the times. Its facilities were overcrowded, its salaries "definitely low," its library "grossly inadequate...
Artist Cuevas professes to be untutored and uninfluenced-except for his admiration of Jose Clemente Orozco and Rufino Tamayo. He dismisses the other Mexican masters, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, with a shrug: "They died several years ago, and what is left are the politics and the public relations...