Search Details

Word: shrug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...understanding of the ramifications of their move, but now that they do, their egos are enormously inflated. They treat Mullah Mousavi Kho-eyni, Khomeini's envoy to them, with ill-concealed contempt. When asked by reporters if they would obey a Khomeini order to release the hostages, most merely shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Attacks on America | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...first three he will guide out of the plane. He picks three of us and indifferently directs us toward the suit up area. He kids us although we are grim faced and jokes with his comrades with the same type of wildness that would make him chuckle and shrug when hearing of a chain saw massacre...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...President Park Chung Hee. Day after day, uniformed schoolchildren, silk-clad housewives and bearded village elders disembarked from rickety country buses and surged through a choking cloud of incense past the dozen black-draped altars. There, Buddhist priests murmured their sutras while mourners prostrated themselves in grief. With a shrug, a government worker whispered the prevailing mood of sorrowful but stoical resignation: "Gone is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Mourning and Post-Mortems | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...Christian: "Connally just doesn't worry about it. He's come to terms with it." Kennedy's attitude is similar. Last summer a friend tried to talk him out of running. Said the friend: "Somebody's out there waiting for you." Replied Kennedy, with a shrug: "They could be waiting for me even if I weren't running for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Somebody's Waiting for You | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...arrival in Miami, one of the former prisoners in Cuba, Lawrence Lunt, 56, of Saratoga, Wyo., readily admitted that he had been spying for the CIA from his ranch in Pinar del Rio province before his arrest in 1965. Juan Tur, 62, of Tampa would only shrug his shoulders when asked by reporters for an explanation of his antigovernment activities in Cuba. The third prisoner, Everett Jackson, 39, of Los Angeles, insisted that he had been operating as a freelance journalist when he parachuted from a plane into Cuba in an attempt to photograph Soviet missile silos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Battling over the Brigade | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | Next