Word: shrug
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...MIDDLE EAST. On this issue, the two sides will probably do nothing more than agree to disagree. Neither wants a war there, but the Russians will certainly shrug off a U.S. request to limit arms aid to the Arabs to purely defensive weapons. Conversely, the U.S. will not abandon its support to Israel. Both sides agree that Israel should pull back from all occupied territories, but the Soviets want an imposed settlement, which the U.S. rejects...
...Concord is a "tight course", said junior Andy Marks, who had one of the better Crimson rounds with an 84. "Most of the guys had 10 penalty shots because of out of bound and lost balls, and we were really off." Marks tended to shrug off the loss. "We got roasted," but "we can come back," he added...
...last week in March, as a guest of Mather House, Dunster House, and Carpenter Center, Resnais spoke of the practical limits and hazards of film direction. He conveyed a shy elegance, and graceful composure reminiscent of his days as an actor. In speaking, his characteristic gesture is a smiling shrug: filmmaking is a chancy game; sometimes you win, sometimes you lose...
...Hughes]. It might have been a flimflam man." Then he veered back: the man he had met for all those hours could only have been Hughes. Finally, exhausted and suffering from a case of laryngitis that reduced his normal baritone to a whisper, Irving ended the interview with a shrug: "God, I just don't know...
...Judge Merhige himself, the Richmond school board last year finally joined the original eleven plaintiffs and sought a merger with Henrico and Chesterfield counties (see map). In ruling for that merger, the judge declared that the state has an "affirmative duty" to eliminate all vestiges of segregation; it cannot shrug off this duty by pleading for local control of schools or by insisting on traditional boundary lines...