Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dine on $11.25 meals, charging them to the tax payer and do not vote themselves tax free raises and expense funds. Is a law constitutional which forces upon teachers a humiliation--that is, the admission that without the pledge to teach to the best of their ability, they will shirk their duty? Suppose these legislators framed a bill for teachers to get on their knees and recite five times "I'll be a good teacher," would that still have to be accepted as law? The fact that private colleges are tax free does not give state legislators the right...
...street. "And the boat was loaded!"-with a cargo worth more than 500 lire, a vast sum to simple fishermen. The owner of the cargo could sooner have gathered figs from thistles than money from these destitutes; but in loyalty to their code of honor the Malavoglia would not shirk the debt. "We are ruined," said Grandfather 'Ntoni quietly-and began with all his humble means to resist the fact...
...regret the inconvenience that all of you newsmen have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline would be to repay honor with dishonor. I shall go now to the convention hall and accept the nomination of the Democratic Party...
...Flyers who refuse to fly should be treated like all other cowards who shirk or desert. Have the wretches no manhood...
...presently planned, Eisenhower's campaign is almost unique in the history of American politics. He is taking advantage of the myth that military men are above politics to shirk one of the chief responsibilities of any campaigner for the most political of all offices. No candidate should have the privilege of picking and choosing his issues. It is surely in the national interest, and probably in his own political interest as well, for Eisenhower to speak out as soon as possible...