Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work one week less a year, enjoy a bigger voice in textbook selection and curriculum changes. They also won a 30-child limit on class size in the first three grades of ghetto schools and a 39-student limit in all other classes. Unhappy school-board members could only shrug their shoulders when asked where most of the $18.7 million for pay raises will come from, nod hopefully toward the state legislature...
...only a "lovely looking amateur, an enthusiastic beginner" who "laid a golden egg." Leading Lady Bouvier compared opening night to having a baby ("You wanted to have it over with"), but Husband Stanislas Radziwill refused to accept fatherhood. "I'm going back to London," he said with a shrug. "She can do what she wants...
What Burack is saying is nothing new. That is how the doctors and pharmacists just shrug off his book. But Random House is certain that the Handbook will be a bestseller. For the first time millions of people will have the information at hand, and even if Senate and state investigations accomplish nothing, there will be public pressure. and that is what Burack wants. In Chicago, Washington, and New York bookstores are already running out of copies. And the Coop says they are selling "exceptionally well." Things are moving fast, "and the real promotion has not begun yet," Burack says...
...Well, I think it's one one of the things we have to take a look at. I'm considering it, but I have not reached a conclusion with respect to that particular approach." Romney cannot shrug off a question. Instead, he fondles it a while, then tosses it back to the questioner...
...that hurtle past like an insomniac's sheep, some woolly, some sheared and some weird. The evening is affluent with easy laughs, and yet curiously anemic in genuine humor. Lou Jacobi and Kay Medford are masters of ethnically styled comic delivery. He gives a line a built-in shrug. She is a one-woman keening committee, and her voice has a cold in its head. The couple's common burden is a Gentile nudnick of an embassy chief who has suffered every major disaster in his diplomatic posts except "a plague of locusts." An innocent abroad with...