Word: shrug
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...chuckle at Watergate. The war is too horrible to think about. We are alienated from each other. We no longer care for our neighbors, or for people dying around the world. We know Government is corrupt, but we simply shrug. We don't care any more. Richard Nixon, in four years, has been able to pull off what no outside power ever could-the crushing of the spirit of the American people. McGovern represents new hope, but we have been hurt once too often. And so we will vote for four more years of Nixon...
Outside the Stadium on the other hand. Harvard coach Joe Restic gloated over his team's very impressive performance. "I've got no first string quarterback," he said, with the happy shrug of a shiek making his nightly decision outside the harem...
Outside the Stadium, on the other hand. Harvard coach Joe Restic gloated over his team's very impressive performance. "I've got no first string quarterback," he said, with the happy shrug of a shiek making his nightly decision outside the harem...
...room is very cold," I said. With a shrug of his shoulders and a gesture toward the street, he replied. "Well, my son. it's very cold outside...
Shakespeare Workshop. "It was hard enough to imagine we could get any audience for Shakespeare down there at all," says Bernard Gersten, Papp's second in command, "let alone charge money for it. Romeo and Juliet? Theater? What's that?" he asks with an illustrative shrug of the shoulders. "At least we could get people in with the word 'free.' " The original budget: $750. What was at first necessity, a free show, became an idee fixe to Papp, and he became convinced that his theater should be as accessible as books in the library...