Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishops of Canterbury is just across the Thames from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. "It is the business of Lambeth," said Dr. Temple at Malvern last year, "to remind Westminster of its responsibilities to God." Now that he occupies Lambeth, he is not likely to shirk that task...
...conference's close, bumbling Alben Barkley told newsmen that the Administration would go after Congressional approval of a resolution for extending the service term, added: "When the need for legislation becomes apparent I believe Congress will in no way shirk its duty...
...That were to shirk...
...Whenever the other rats asked him if he'd like to come out with them, he'd answer "I don't know." And when they said, "do you want to stay at home?" he wouldn't say yes or no either. He'd always shirk making a choice. One day his aunt said to him, "Now look here! No one'll care for you if you carry on like this. You haven't any more mind than a blade of grass." The young rat coughed and looked wise...
...teeth), by an excessively hissing s, by heavy ng sounds (e.g., "making gah" for "making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between ir and oi, for both words...