Word: shruggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families of every officer and soldier above the rank of private can purchase good food at government prices in the economatos or commissaries. Much of this promptly reaches the black market. No significant dissatisfaction with Franco is apparent in Spain's army. Remarked one Spaniard with a shrug: "Why should there be? They have never lived better in their lives...
Most of us believe in Christ, but very few of us see Him clearly, because our knowledg is shrouded in mysticism and superstition. How many of our young people shrug off the entire subject of religion simply because they have had no opportunity for clear thinking along these lines? If we could but once separate the dogma of worship from the necessary basic understanding of the origins and growth of religion, I believe most people would begin thinking about it as a part of their own lives...
Leading the latest procession from parlor to bedroom is the incomparable mountebank, Clifton Webb, gracefully balancing Noel's sheaf of tarts and darts. He hits the razor's edge with every gesture, shrug and intonation. Up against this kind of finesse Monty Wooley would be made to look like a blundering clod. Portraying the actor whose life aim begins and ends with his own convenience, Webb does a pungently sophisticated job of lechery and of molding the lives of the satellite circle of blustering men and urbane women who serve as his foils...
...more than a year the German people, living in squalor and rubble in their ruined cities, have faced nothingness. . . . We shrug our shoulders and say, 'They asked for it,' we are doing all we can to feed the bodies of this people...
...Paris, the newspaper Combat gave a Gallic shrug: "The Ministry of Finance will lose a few million francs [in amusement taxes], much more than the state can hope to collect [for years] from the entire population of Tenda and Briga...