Word: shrug
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...course. Now, now boys, mustn't touch the ferris wheel, must we. There now, look out for that motor... What madame?" I took the reference with a shrug and started to ask about the latest in atom bomb kits. She shoved a microscope at me and raced down to the other end of the counter. Two of "my" boys were racing the mechanical cars head...
...pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases. It is not rebellious-either against convention or instruction, the state or fate, Pop or Mom. Toward its parents, it exhibits an indulgent tolerance. As one young New Yorker put it with a shrug: "Why insult the folks...
...lion's tail. It raised a laugh all the way from Capitol Hill to Cairo and Teheran. We, in England, could never understand the ingratitude of other people whom we had helped (for their own benefit of course-and our profit), but we were rich enough to shrug our shoulders and let the matter pass. Now there is little fun in twisting the poor lion's tail. Instead, a new game has been invented. Uncle Sam has a nose. If that nose gets twigged, its owner lets out a yell. What fun. That is a sign of greatness...
...sent out more than 7,000,000 books last year, showed a net profit (after taxes) of nearly $1,250,000. The Literary Guild, the Dollar Book Club and a group of other clubs, all owned by Doubleday, do so well that Doubleday can afford to shrug off the charge that most of the books on its own huge publishing list are utterly undistinguished...
...hooting & hollering. A New Yorker editor once returned to the office after a stormy evening at the Algonquin Hotel and thoughtfully announced, "Thurber is the greatest guy in the world up to 5 p.m." Those who love Thurber ascribe such outbursts to old-fashioned artistic temperament and simply shrug them off. They know that when real troubles arise, there is nobody more steadfast and generous. The jams he has helped and comforted friends through are without number...