Word: shruggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easygoing pidgin, one word does the work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
What about the role of an educational leader in the intercollegiate football wars? "Disenchantment" provokes only a shrug from Sproul ("these bad season . . .") for Cal jumped from a 7 out of 9 losing streak last season to an 8 game clutch of victories this fall. "I've seen these crises over and over," he smiles. "They'll talk about subsidization. A student body ought to recognize that there's no real glory in a team that's been bought and paid for. It doesn't mean a thing unless it grows out of the actual life of the institution...
...done prize pigs, sheep and dogs as well-some of them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...
This raising of the necessity for a World Government is understandably distasteful to the many papers and periodicals which have been saying with a little shrug that war does, after all, seem the only way out. But to those who are not quite so perfervid about getting into it now, the Committee's ideas seem sound. Some of these ideas are old, familiar, yet supremely important--that there is no defense against atomic weapons; that if by a mutual, unspoken agreement we simply abandon the idea of world government, we must logically begin an immediate preventive war; that the possession...
What would Brazil do about its new visitors? Shrugged one official, "What can we do? We will try to watch them, but Brazil is a very big country and we are not [another shrug] a vindictive people...