Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole point is that to ask a conservative such as Evans to investigate causes and effects (or the practicality of applying conservative theses) is to ask him to adopt the very ethic he is trying to shirk: the conservative is not a scientist but, rather, harks back to a pre-scientific tradition...
Adenauer did not shirk Germany's moral responsibility; he has made the nation assume its share of guilt for World War II and for the inhumanity toward the Jews (he negotiated a formal reparations agreement with Israel). Yet, he has combined common sense and compassion in declaring that a member of the Nazi Party who did not personally participate in crime must not be condemned "forever...
...Bruce Shirk '62, of Kirkland House Kansas City, Mo., has been elected of the University Band...
...responsibility not only to the American people but to free peoples everywhere if it did not, in the absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome this danger of surprise attack. In fact, the U.S. has not and does not shirk this responsibility." When Khrushchev responded with a threat to "strike" and "hit" at any nation that provided an airbase for such U.S. intelligence flights, the State Department replied that the U.S. would defend any foreign nation whose bases were so attacked...
...quite-all the way toward admitting that he is an eager presidential candidate. At a Houston press conference. Johnson was asked if he would accept the Democratic nomination. "I have served my country in every capacity in which I have been asked to serve," he replied. "I would not shirk my responsibility." He was aware that his name would be placed in nomination at the Democratic Convention, Johnson admitted. "I am very honored." Meanwhile, there were his Senate duties in Washington, but "from time to time I will visit with my friends over the nation...