Word: shrugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rose partners shrug off the story, insisting, plausibly, that if they had anything to hide, they would not have gotten two lower-rung employees to do their dirty work. Hedges says senior partners would be just as unlikely to risk attracting suspicion by doing something out of the ordinary -- like their own shredding. "People get suspicious...
Instead, I think, Mr. Lat would shrug, shake his head and think, "There goes another affirmative action baby." Jon-Peter Kelly...
...Suddenly the sunlit get-together is interrupted by an earthquake. As a neighboring table rattles past them across the floor, its traveling occupants keep chatting without even looking up from their arugula. "How strong is it?" a guest at Martin's table inquires blithely. "Oh," Martin says with a shrug, "I give...
...prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant to the warden at Rochester. "When we're presented with the information we request, we can go forward...
...calculated and strategic maneuver meant to keep the critics guessing? One would like to think so. Why else would Keillor, wry humorist and folksy radio personality, populate his stories with Neanderthals? Many of Keillor's narrators and protagonists, perplexed by the emotional machinations of modern women, can only shrug their shoulders, reach for another beer and perhaps scratch themselves. One story, written in verse, has the narrator muse...