Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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...