Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River valley. These are programs for the future and may some day help to erect a framework for a lasting Arab-Israeli settlement. For the present, this country's task is to do its part in dispersing the war clouds over the Middle East. The United States must not shirk that responsibility...
Moderator Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, set the tone for the gathering in New Lecture Hall by noting definite shifts in emphasis since 1930 toward more serious studying and more intense extra-curricular activity. He affirmed that in an age of anxiety, today's undergraduate does not shirk his responsibility...
...reports . . . will not penalize him as a man. If he sees men around him dismissed from their positions for less than the most serious reasons, because of popular clamor, or on anything less than the most solid proof, it would not be surprising if he were then to shirk his own basic responsibility in the field of learning to press...
...When Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul H. Douglas found that "the acute problems of the times have shaped my resolution," running for re-election became a matter of simple duty. Said Paul Douglas: "No one . . . can shirk the hard fight ... if freedom is to be preserved and prosperity maintained...
Soap Lord McElroy, who speaks feudalistically of the "ordinary people . . . who win wars for us," shrugs off a job even the feudal lords did not shirk: they, at least, usually realized that raising artistic standards was not alone "the problem of the schools" but the moral and social responsibility of those whose money supported artistic media...