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Word: shrugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With more cadets than it can commission, the Pentagon often seems to shrug off campus criticism of R.O.T C. But both the services and colleges have tried to brighten up the R.O.T.C. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: R.O.T.C.: Brass in the Ivy | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Most Kirkland men will shrug off its physical shortcomings. They will talk about the House in terms of its talents, its achievements, its ambitions. And the fact that they will talk in these terms is one of Kirkland's greatest recommendations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isolationism and Famed 'House Spirit' Maintain Healthy Balance at Kirkland | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

That is a large order, because few Latin American diplomats see the dangers of world Communism. Their inclination is to shrug off Communism as a local problem, and some even sympathize privately with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello's charge that the U.S. is being outrageously interventionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Conference Climate | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...facts remain that Albizu is once again free to deal with his Nationalist aides. He was re-elected President of the legally unrecognized Nationalist Party in 1948. To shrug off his power and infllence because of near-insanity is to overlook his increased menace because of this very condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Albizu Called House Attack 'Heroism' | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

...smile sympathetically at the young lady, but can only shrug our shoulders at the rest. Still, she and Shelley might have a point. Malenkov and McCarthy permitting, Spring may come to Cambridge this year after all. It's never missed an opening date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ritual | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

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