Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today we are faced with a conflict of ideologies; the world is divided into two hostile camps. America stands at the crossroads. We must come to grips with reality. We must act swiftly and decisively, we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past. America cannot shirk her duty at this critical hour; there is no turning back...
Students will pay $8 for a series ticket, Norman Shirk of the Symphony's staff announced last night. No tickets for single concerts will be sold, Shirk said, unless series tickets are left unsold. And that, he added, is unlikely...
Radcliffe girls don't like exercise. They don't like archery, sailing, bowling, body mechanics, or modern dance. Given a chance, most of them would shirk their two years, two hours a week of athletics. This, at least, is what Radcliffe gym authorities suspect. To make athletics requirements escape-proof, the Gym Department has plugged loopholes so thoroughly that even the more athletic girls suffer...
...government headquarters, nodded unblinkingly to an assembly of 200 of Nationalist China's remaining leaders-cabinet members, generals, governors of China's lost provinces and four former mayors of Shanghai. "At this critical moment," came the clipped tones of the Gimo's native Chekiang, "I cannot shirk my responsibility." He added optimistically: "I do not have any doubt that we will recover the mainland, that the Communists will be crushed . . ." That afternoon, the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang received a thousand guests at a tea celebrating the Gimo's return to office...