Word: shrug
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...tour. . . ." At this point he was drowned out by the rush and thud of a sudden tropical rainstorm. Java's torrid heat made closing the doors unthinkable. Then nearby British artillery opened fire, presumably against Indonesian guerrillas. Sir Archibald, seasoned diplomat though he was, gave up, with a shrug of his shoulders. "I can't compete with this," said he. General Mansergh, not realizing that the thunderous obbligato was being played by his own guns, bellowed: "The Ambassador can't compete with the Almighty-rain and thunder...
Director Gregory Ratoff played ineffectual hide-&-seek with Miss Bennett in the murkier shadows of the soundstage, but generally had to wind up the game with a shrug: "All right, dollink, ve do it your vay." Now & again anxious, imperious Producer Bennett asked fellow-producer Darryl F. Zanuck to look at the rushes; but it is reasonable to suspect that Mr. Zanuck did not take too much responsibility for the picture...
...right thumb, then the index finger, then the whole hand. When he tried to bend his elbow, he found that he had lost coordination: instead of tightening one muscle and relaxing its opposite, he tightened both. One day, in answer to a nurse's question, he tried to shrug his shoulders, was startled because only one shoulder shrugged. But he learned to shrug both shoulders, to bend his arm, and (after practicing daily in a tub of water) to wiggle his toes...
TIME, long a favorite of Joe, has just caused the soldier overseas to shrug and say, "What...
...next day Ed Stettinius began heartily backslapping the British and Russians, and would call loudly, "Alec!" and "Andrei!" to the British chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan, and the Russian chief, Andrei Gromyko. Sir Alexander, 59, an urbane, reserved British Foreign Office specialist, winced slightly; Ambassador Gromyko gave a scarcely perceptible shrug. But both bore up bravely under this American jollity, and by week's end even seemed to be used...