Word: shrugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only that, but he intends to earn the degree in only one year. Entrance exams bore him; these he dismisses with a high-honors shrug. Freshman hazing presents somewhat more of a problem, and Mr. Belvedere faithfully wears his '52 beanie until he emancipates his class by pole-vaulting 14 feet to win the "Soph-Fresh" track meet. In order to earn money, he indulges in a more sophisticated baby sitting, working as a "hasher" in a sorority and civilizing its unmannered members...
...Hopkins V as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, in protest to Mr. Pilkey's attempts to "pack" the Board with Alumni. "No sir," says the Judge, "I shall simply watch you and your school with the amused detachment of one who is in the know, with the Olympian shrug of a former lover watching his ex-mistress go to seed...
...analyze for them the published financial records of the University. Falling such expert interpretation, students are in no position to arrive at an opinion in the matter; with it, and with the discussion of future prospects which Provost Buck gave the student councils, they could have done more than shrug at the inevitable. Perhaps they would have decided the increase in tuition was in the students interest, but at any rate they would have supplemented the Administration position with a statement of the student position on this question which directly affects all students. Chandler Davis...
...refused to give if back. She was still so loyal to her country that she "went all to pieces" when she learned of Pearl Harbor. But when she was asked to sign an oath of allegiance to Germany she did so. "It is obvious," she said, with a shrug, "that one has to live, somehow...
...characters and falls equally short of lighting up the sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...