Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuck in some weird, high-strung limbo between hope and hopelessness. Inmates' optimism is the manic wishfulness of losing gamblers. Their fatalism is generally not wise but numb, a brute shrug...
...tempted to shrug off Government ways, consoling oneself with the cynical belief that even the most guarded information eventually leaks out. The trouble is that leakage is neither dependable nor always timely. "Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead," Benjamin Franklin said, and there may be truth to that. But such folklore is no substitute for a sensible public policy. The public vs. Government skirmish over how much classification there should be will probably go on forever and, in any democracy, should...
...student could only shrug. "Not to worry, not to worry." said the professor." Plenty of my sharpest students just don't have a mind for economics. Suppose I ask you this: How do you think the moral precepts of the Jacobins influenced foreign policy in England...
...tons of canned meat a day. But his workers actually produce less than half that amount. So he lies; he marks down 2½ million tons a day. He has no fear of being caught and punished. "That's my boss's problem," he says with a shrug. "He probably fiddles with his figures...
...himself, his wife Barbara and their three children, just in case Nostradamus' prediction of a world war comes true. The bleak side of the Teutonic soul occasionally stares out uneasily from behind the affable visage. But it is quickly dispelled with the German equivalent of a verbal shrug: "Naja," says Prey, and gloomy Faust retreats. He seems constitutionally incapable of becoming too morose. After all, when pressed, he admits that one role he would really like to sing is neither a villain nor a victim but the dashing hero of Lehar's The Merry Widow: Count Danilo...