Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topless suit? With a shrug and a yawn, Pucci turned gentleman and traitor, offered women wary of fads or of catching a cold, a grand way to cover up. It is a one-piece coverall outfit that fastens down the front, has to be stepped into, and is so difficult to get out of that the sun is bound to go down before it does, leaving a beachful of spectators ogling in the dark...
...illegally parked cars. When police garages were full, offending cars were simply stashed away on isolated streets. No records were kept of what went where. If the car was in a police pound, the owner paid maybe a $4 fine; if it wasn't -shrug. One army captain wailed that it took him three days of searching to find his Volkswagen; other owners found that vandals had followed the tow trucks, stripped their cars bare...
...each hour. Capital traffic is also disrupted by a flock of 400 sheep that has to cross the highway, as well as the hay wagons that occasionally break down in town. In time, foreigners learn to take such quaint delays in their stride. "C'est si Bonn," they shrug...
...incomprehensible to him; lowest, for instance in precisely the courses he likes the best and does the most work in. But on the other hand, some seem completely fair. So he concludes finally that "Marks are totally irrational!" Ask a Skipper about them and he will laugh and shrug. He doesn't know why some people get such consistent grades, or how he would go about improving...
...that distorted the face of Europe as it slid nightmarishly into war. But Remarque's derelict vision of humanity allows little room for pity, and none at all for rage. "What has my life been?" asks Schwarz at the end. The man across the table replies with a shrug: "It was your life. Isn't that enough?" The question calls for an answer-which Novelist Remarque never supplies...