Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virtues, as summed up by pig-tailed Rita Eversole, 13: "the ability to laugh, her readiness to take criticism, her open-mindedness, her patience with someone who trys . . . her sternness with those who shirk, her ability to make a subject interesting and her fairness. . . . She was the kind of teacher who did not pretend to know everything...
...indeed. To the microphone went Prime Minister Clement Attlee himself. But he had only cold comfort to give. Said he: Britain cannot shirk her obligation to maintain forces in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East; hence the Bevin plan for gradual demobilization must stand. Two days later, Isaacs again endorsed the plan. "Hell," said a colonel over from Germany, "these aren't the men we voted...
...after he took the 305th Bombardment Group to England in 1942. In the early bombing of Europe, U.S. airmen were often less than successful and Colonel LeMay perceived the reason: the bombers were taking evasive action in the face of heavy German ack-ack and fighter interception; pilots would shirk from holding their course the five or six minutes necessary to make good, sound bombing runs. LeMay announced that he would bomb the Brest submarine yards himself, and that he would hit the target...
Malvern was revolutionary only in the sense that it recognized the existence of a social revolution. The problem was as plain as hunger. The world over, the masses must be provided with food, clothing, work. To provide these necessities was a duty no Christian might shirk. Not to provide them was an incitement to civil war. For, unlike Bolshevism or Fascism, Malvern's revolution did not glorify the impersonal power politics of the war of classes or the iron economic laws against whose predestined operation there can be only abject, unconditional surrender. Its proper subject was not Political...
...shirk this opportunity is to invite defeat. To seize upon it will be to pave the way to victory by showing all mankind that the United Nations can translate freedom into creative action and can plan now, by democratic means, for the free world of the future...