Word: shrug
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...harbor on a Monday, and by Friday there were only nine. Neapolitans say the missing ship was stealthily sailed out of the port and run aground on the coast ten miles to the south. The cargo was removed and the ship dismantled, piece by piece. American naval officers shrug off the story as apocryphal, but, say Neapolitans, how could any government admit it? "When that news swept the city," wrote the late author Curzio Malaparte, "the laughter seemed like an earthquake...
...catalogue of facts supporting these commonplaces can be drawn from The New York Times. I.F. Stone has reprinted a fair selection. Yet such catalogues impress neither policy makers nor old-line liberal commentators who support the government position. Both tend to shrug off attention to the local injustices of the war as characteristic of the tendermindedness of radicals...
...doesn't fit into any established mold or pattern," says Governor Connally. After their first encounter, Lady Bird said of him: "I knew I'd met some thing remarkable, but I didn't know quite what." And Daughter Luci, 17, once declared with a helpless shrug: "I can't ever tell what he is going to do. He can't either...
...President Eduardo Frei, 53, decided to forgive, if not forget. In a brief ceremony at Santiago's La Moneda palace, he accepted the credentials of Ambassador Nikolai Alekseev, thus making Chile the sixth Latin American nation to have diplomatic relations with Moscow.-The U.S. took it with a shrug. "Our ties with Chile are too tight and too deep to be adversely affected," said an embassy spokesman in Santiago. Behind the move is Frei's frankly expressed desire to find new trade markets for Chilean exports, particularly copper. And besides, he adds, "I prefer to have the Russians...
...first stretch fabric, of course, was skin. It fit fairly well, withstood wear and tear (scuff marks, lipstick traces, even wine stains vanished in a jiffy), but wrinkled like crazy: a knee bend, for example, caused the stuff to stretch 45%, a shoulder shrug, 16%. After as little as 30 bending, shrugging years, shape was sure to go. Fortunately, skilled technicians got to work on the problem, finally turned up with an ANo. 1 solution called polyurethane elastomeric yarn (spandex) that stretches like skin, leaves no telltale bags or sags, and springs back into good-as-new condition without benefit...