Word: shrug
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Until recently, Franco could shrug off such criticism. But now, at 67, Franco is worried about the future. He fears that his National Movement may splinter into fighting factions of Monarchists and Falangists, hopes to use the monarchy as a rallying point to unify the movement. The change in balance has given Don Juan an important ace to play: the continued presence of his son Juan Carlos in Spain is vital to Franco as a symbol of unity and the monarchy to come...
...corporations such as General Motors, International Business Machines, and National Cash Register, which have full-scale international divisions and plants abroad, know how profitable trade can be. But smaller companies, which cannot invest millions to make millions, tend to shrug off export sales, regard them only as a dumping ground for surplus domestic production. When there is an export department, it often operates at the lowest management level...
...hours of the celebration "straight as the No. 1." In Washington, both sides of the House of Representatives gushingly vied to pay tribute to Speaker Sam Rayburn, turning 78 and rolling into his 47th year in Congress, his 15th as Speaker. Before taking the annual flattery with a practiced shrug, Mr. Sam observed: "I've never been sick in my life. I never did feel bad. I feel good now. If I keep feeling like I do, I guess I'll stay around a long time." Down on his North Carolina farm. Poet Carl Sandburg turned 82, allowed...
...procession rolled up to the Quirinale Palace, where the President and his party were to stay, Italy's President Gronchi seemed acutely embarrassed about the rain-splashed welcome. "Ah, Mr. President," said Gronchi, with a sad-eyed shrug. Ike reached out and patted Gronchi on the sleeve, said he felt that the welcome had been very warm, expressed understanding about the bad weather. And in the splendid patina of the Quirinale, the party's spirits picked up. That afternoon Ike found time for a nap. His son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara explored the sprawling, centuries...
...people who sympathized with Van Doren seemed to completely overlook this perjury angle. Yet I wonder how these people would feel if they were on trial for a serious crime and, though innocent, found themselves convicted by the perjury of a witness. Would they shrug off that perjury as they shrugged off Van Doren's? I doubt...