Word: shrug
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...story is purely and simply the Madison-Avenue-ratings game," Cronkite commented last week with a patient shrug. "We have decided upon this change in assignments," hummed CBS News President Fred W. Friendly, "because we have concluded that a dual anchor arrangement provides more flexibility, mobility, and diversity of coverage." What he did not explain is why Cronkite is not at least one of the flukes of the new anchor. Is it because Friendly has never cared much for Cronkite, or because he thinks that Captain Cronkite does not easily mesh with other newsmen...
...topless suit? With a shrug and a yawn, Pucci turned gentleman and traitor, offered women wary of fads or of catching a cold, a grand way to cover up. It is a one-piece coverall outfit that fastens down the front, has to be stepped into, and is so difficult to get out of that the sun is bound to go down before it does, leaving a beachful of spectators ogling in the dark...
...illegally parked cars. When police garages were full, offending cars were simply stashed away on isolated streets. No records were kept of what went where. If the car was in a police pound, the owner paid maybe a $4 fine; if it wasn't -shrug. One army captain wailed that it took him three days of searching to find his Volkswagen; other owners found that vandals had followed the tow trucks, stripped their cars bare...
...each hour. Capital traffic is also disrupted by a flock of 400 sheep that has to cross the highway, as well as the hay wagons that occasionally break down in town. In time, foreigners learn to take such quaint delays in their stride. "C'est si Bonn," they shrug...
...incomprehensible to him; lowest, for instance in precisely the courses he likes the best and does the most work in. But on the other hand, some seem completely fair. So he concludes finally that "Marks are totally irrational!" Ask a Skipper about them and he will laugh and shrug. He doesn't know why some people get such consistent grades, or how he would go about improving...