Word: shrug
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...seemed, was to help topple Rudolf Slansky, the party leader who was hanged in 1952 along with ten other Reds on trumped-up charges of espionage and treason. This was irony indeed, since Novotny himself was a ringleader in the 1952 blood bath. Old Stalinist Novotny could not shrug off his own guilt so easily, nor could he escape blame for the country's current economic woes. In the prevailing mood of cautious destalinization among Czech comrades, Novotny himself might be the next to go. For the first time he had a serious rival. Replacing Siroky as Premier...
...inspecting the bait, even tapping it tentatively with its bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails. "Ain't nothing in the ocean so hard to outguess...
...Gaulle kept stressing the mystique of Europe, while Erhard tried to talk economics but found that the General was as little interested in such matters as the Chancellor. As for the Franco-German treaty, De Gaulle managed to sound both hopeful and casual. "Treaties," he said with a shrug, "are like roses and young girls. They last while they last...
...Heart. There seemed to be a danger that Kennedy's straight talk might even further acerbate Franco-American relations. But at a time when West Germany might be drawn to De Gaulle's point of view, that risk was worth taking. The immediate French reaction was a shrug, with a hint of a sniff. France's Minister of Information Alain Peyrefitte said that his government does not really distrust Kennedy's resolution to defend Europe. But, he said, France does have a right to question Kennedy's ability to impose his policies on his presidential...
...Hassi, 7, from an unnamed hiding place in Western Germany. Barricaded once more behind the white-painted walls, Frau Eichmann and family (her son Dieter, his wife and child) remain in isolation, screaming at intruders, "Leave us alone! Haven't we suffered enough?" Their nearest neighbors merely shrug. "Eichmann built them a prison," says one, "and now they have to live...