Word: shrug
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...identities? C: Believe me, we were preparing for the worst. I mean, we love our readers but we don’t doubt their capability to write compelling death threats. Nothing like that happened. N: Disappointingly positive. I was hoping for more vitriol. Most people responded with an enormous shrug. [But] I figured the odds are about fifty fifty that Aleksey Vayner will kill me. With any of the numerous deadly weapons at his disposal. 14.FM: Do you read FM?C: Definitely, we’re big fans. 15.FM: Last comments?C: We reserve the right to publish...
...There’s definitely a camaraderie,” Sniderman says, referring to the bonds between non-dancers. Indeed, they often end up pushing harder than other participants in the show. “The bunch of us will either look at each other, shrug and try to fake it, or we’ll schedule extra rehearsal time...
...loose in the valley. When that happens, some residents simply fill up their car with gas and leave the keys in the vehicle. "It's better than having a fugitive break into your house and take you hostage," says Bob Wood, publisher of the Florence Citizen, with a shrug. "All they want to do is get out of town." Even though he doesn't live in fear, Wood says he's increasingly concerned about problems at the federal prison complex. And he's not alone...
...apocalypses are more shadowy, less ideological. In Jericho, we do not know who attacked or why. In The Road, the cataclysm may have been war, or it may have been an asteroid strike. Who would do this? you might ask these works. Terrorists? A superpower? Americans? God? Their unspoken shrug: Any. All. None. Pick a number...
...last year's acquisition of New Mexico-- based Dankoff Solar Products Inc. Outside, it's another gray day in a country that, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, gets as much sunlight every year as Anchorage, Alaska. "It's a question of timing," explains Rter, with a shrug and a smile, of the company he founded 10 years ago in his living room. "If the U.S. market had started in 1996, maybe a U.S. company would have bought...