Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worry. Issues seemed somehow remote. Said Atlanta Journal Editor Jack Spalding: "People aren't concerned about foreign aid. What the hell, it's out of their hands." Said a San Francisco architect: "As far as De Gaulle and the Common Market are concerned, I tend to shrug my shoulders and hope it will work itself out somehow. And I don't much care whether they waste money on the TFX in Seattle or somewhere else." Michigan's Republican Representative Gerald Ford, chairman of the House G.O.P. Conference, says he has received only three letters advocating...
Reservations. There were some issues on which Wilson's views were directly at odds with those of the Administration; U.S. officials were inclined to shrug them off as lip service to Labor's left wing. Most important divergence is his support for withdrawal of NATO and Soviet troops from Central Europe, making "nuclear-free" zones of East and West Germany and Hungary-a proposal that the U.S. considers impractical and dangerous. Wilson seemed as wobbly as ever on some questions, notably the Common Market, which he now conditionally favors. He supports greater East-West trade, which...
...Victoria. B.C., Lester Pearson tried to shrug it off: "It's his rug, not mine." Diefenbaker was the one who brought the Bomarcs to Canada, Pearson recalled...
...Support. Did this dreadful stuff touch off a sound of laughter like hail on a tin roof? No. Jack Benny almost never does. His material is gauged for longevity rather than flash. His patent for permanence is simply that he can do no wrong. His cheapskate, self-deceiving, inept, shrug-it-off, endearing and vainglorious public character has grown round him for decade after decade like layer after layer of cement, and he has long since become utterly indestructible. Many of his peer contemporaries-Eddie Cantor. Fred Allen, Ben Bernie-are either retired or dead; but Benny just keeps...
...into the Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange for Katanga's giant Union Miniere each year. Most merely shrugged. Then, Adoula wrote to 17 nations urging them to stop buying Tshombe's exports. Many of them would shrug...