Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catalogue of facts supporting these commonplaces can be drawn from The New York Times. I.F. Stone has reprinted a fair selection. Yet such catalogues impress neither policy makers nor old-line liberal commentators who support the government position. Both tend to shrug off attention to the local injustices of the war as characteristic of the tendermindedness of radicals...
...doesn't fit into any established mold or pattern," says Governor Connally. After their first encounter, Lady Bird said of him: "I knew I'd met some thing remarkable, but I didn't know quite what." And Daughter Luci, 17, once declared with a helpless shrug: "I can't ever tell what he is going to do. He can't either...
...President Eduardo Frei, 53, decided to forgive, if not forget. In a brief ceremony at Santiago's La Moneda palace, he accepted the credentials of Ambassador Nikolai Alekseev, thus making Chile the sixth Latin American nation to have diplomatic relations with Moscow.-The U.S. took it with a shrug. "Our ties with Chile are too tight and too deep to be adversely affected," said an embassy spokesman in Santiago. Behind the move is Frei's frankly expressed desire to find new trade markets for Chilean exports, particularly copper. And besides, he adds, "I prefer to have the Russians...
...first stretch fabric, of course, was skin. It fit fairly well, withstood wear and tear (scuff marks, lipstick traces, even wine stains vanished in a jiffy), but wrinkled like crazy: a knee bend, for example, caused the stuff to stretch 45%, a shoulder shrug, 16%. After as little as 30 bending, shrugging years, shape was sure to go. Fortunately, skilled technicians got to work on the problem, finally turned up with an ANo. 1 solution called polyurethane elastomeric yarn (spandex) that stretches like skin, leaves no telltale bags or sags, and springs back into good-as-new condition without benefit...
...hero-victim is a middle-aged solicitor, and it is the hour of his ultimate estrangement. His clients shrug him off. His mistress, wearying of him, cancels plans for the weekend with him. His clerk, who has really been running the law practice, gives notice. His secretary, with whom he used to catch a few winks on the office couch, tells him she is pregnant and leaving to marry her new lover. His daughter listens passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts...