Word: shrug
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Stopping over in Hong Kong, Damle, with a smile and a shrug, told a reporter that the stories of Red China's purge had been greatly exaggerated. "Some few hundreds have been shot in Peking and its neighborhood," said he, "but these were mostly scoundrels who have committed misdemeanors under the old regime and who are receiving their just deserts." Furthermore, Damle added in admiring tones, Communist China's trains are running on time...
Impressive as the overall Russian performance was, it was greeted with a shrug by one European team coach, familiar with the U.S.'s razzle-dazzle style of play. Said he, lumping the pride of Russia in a class with Slippery Rock Teachers': "Kentucky would take them by 30 points...
...granted"). He was the last man to think of raising wages, in part, says Chronicler Patch, because he was much too absorbed in writing about economics to notice anything so obvious as rising living costs. Illness, whether his own or others', was ignored or dismissed with a shrug. "Her injuries," he informed Miss Patch, after 76-year-old Mrs. Shaw had been hurt in an automobile accident, "are only bruises and sprains and a troublesome hole in her shin plus two black eyes...
...Resigned Shrug. Equally memorable in TV's gallery was grey-haired, impeccable Joe Adonis, who needed only a highball to pose as a gentleman of distinction; pudgy Bookmaker Frank Erickson, who never got beyond the fourth grade ("I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might intend to criminate me"); Water Commissioner James J. Moran, a granite-jawed Irishman clearly following some elaborate, personal code of honor that the common run of mankind would never comprehend; and the virulent clash of words and wills between New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer and Senator Charles...
Minor characters were as sharply etched: a woebegone, moonfaced Puerto Rican accepting his impending arrest for perjury with a resigned shrug; an ex-Navy lieutenant commander, nervously eager to please, repeatedly and irrelevantly reminding the committee that he had been wounded in the South Pacific; a prim Fire Department receptionist who kept painstakingly correcting his own grammar...