Word: shrugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a shrug, he concluded. "If any one disagrees with our fundamental assumption...
These words could be read as meaning that the Cabinet are in a mood to shrug off some of Britain's most solemn treaty obligations. Before Europe could be shocked, however, Sir Samuel's entourage explained that the First Lord's words were an expression of the fact that Britain is not bound to send any particular kind of aid although she is bound to send aid and is true to this obligation...
...citizens in Russia would be preserved (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Comrade Litvinoff, having secured Soviet recognition, went home to Moscow via Rome. When he was asked by the Eternal City's Catholic journalists whether the church clause was going to hold water he replied with his characteristic wink & shrug. Last week in Moscow, sudden and final violation of what President Roosevelt had thought would be an effective promise, occurred simultaneously with honors for Comrade Litvinoff...
...portrait of myself lurking in the pages of contemporary literature. . . . All alike are hostile: which is significant. . . . The main question among my acquaintances has been whether it is a respectable big devil that inhabits me, or a little mean one." His only answer to the question is to shrug his other cheek...
...Wartime losers who now propose to shrug off their post-war penalties, Turkey had picked the best time to make the best case. Germany last month had provided a fine, fresh precedent by its rough & ready remilitarization of the Rhineland. The permanent security of the Dardanelles had been guaranteed jointly at Lausanne by Britain, France and Italy, all three of whom were in a serious snarl last week at Geneva. Turks had a firm friend and warm supporter in France's new ally, Soviet Russia, which would secretly like to see the Dardanelles fortified against the navies of capitalist...