Word: shrug
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...Elysee Palace, a small unit of seven to nine men guard the gate, while the rest of the palace is watched over by a dozen or so city policemen. Files are kept on potential assassins and all threats are investigated, but, says one senior ministry official with a shrug, "The danger here, like everywhere, is the nut-and that we can't protect against...
Kubaki says that he hates to talk about himself, and he really does hate to. How about high school? Star quarterback? A shy shrug. Football captain? He changes the subject. Student council president? Kubacki blushes and slides down in his Harvard chair: "No, treasurer...
...world that emerges in these plays is a variegated, richly human, willfully troublesome one, one that Styles accepts with philosophical resignation, a shrug of the shoulder, and a toothy laugh. Sizwe Banzi and The Island are political plays about the horror of apartheid, but they are much more than that; the world they create is a world of futility, reminiscent of novels about India, by Indian writers writing in English, such as Narayan and U.S. Naipal. Like Naipal's Mr. Stone, Styles has the distinctive resigned sensibility of a colonized people, an intelligent people who know their supposed masters...
...recent years, no-strike clauses that ban walkouts have been written into most labor contracts, including those covering the West Virginia mines. Trouble is, when some workers strike without authorization, union officials often shrug (some critics say wink) and claim they are not responsible. Judge Hall did not buy that approach. Rapping the U.M.W. for its "feeble" efforts to halt the walkout, Hall made the fine heavy to force quick action. U.M.W. President Arnold Miller and other union leaders responded by working feverishly to get the miners back...
Tell that to Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, and he will shrug expansively. Benacerraf had been studying immunology, he says, "years before cancer became fashionable," and when the two fields overlapped, he had investigated the connection. Benacerraf's experiments with transplanting mouse tumors had indicated that tumor cells prompt immune defenses by the mouse. He says that some evidence suggests that the tumor might confuse the immune system's sense of what is self; that immune mechanisms begin to treat the malignant cells as "self" and then actually encourage growth of the tumor...