Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of them have been working for 16 years, and they just shrug their shoulders and say, 'Oh, well, a better day is coming,' " observes Larry Howard, 22, a Wichita State senior. "In Wichita, the peckerwood studies you and finds out where you're most vulnerable, and then he cuts you deeper. This is deeper than the way it's done in the South, and it isn't as open. There they say, 'Nigger, I don't like you, so what you gonna do about it?' Here they smile in your face...
...fears walled up inside the cool they try to maintain. A moment before the trial begins, however, they face one another, exchange names. "I like you," admits the leader of the pack. "I like you, too." says Dean, and asks him, "Why are we doing this?" There comes a shrug from the leader. His eyes relent- "Well, you've gotta do something...