Word: shirked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President was doing all he could to end the war, but they did not want to have to parade in the streets to show their support. They preferred a more modest expression of unity. Dombrowski donated $5,000 to promote the cause, solicited another $5,000 from Mrs. Mary Shirk, a Redlands heiress to the Kimberly-Clark fortune. He opened offices on both coasts, began distributing some 200,000 "National Unity" bumper stickers daily. "We merely want all Americans to stand up and be counted for justice, honor and integrity," he says...
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...Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty is not a man to shirk his civic duty. There he was in front of city hall, amiably lying on a plank supported by two chairs, while a magician hovered nearby. Then the magician slowly removed each chair, leaving the Mayor apparently suspended in midair. The reason for all the levity was an "Academy of Magical Arts" day, proclaimed to promote the cause of magic in L.A. Sam certainly rose to the occasion. "There's often a need for magic in politics," he said. "Why, as mayor, you have to have the ability...
Lights Out & On. Mr. Marcuss' thought process was doubtless properly sharpened. But sharp or not, most students do not shirk. Legal Aid Bureau President Deanne Siemer spends an irreducible six hours every day on studies outside of class-and outside of her voluminous extracurricular legal-aid work. "All of the kids work pretty hard, particularly in the first year," agrees Jay Becker, who compiled the school's first confidential critique of courses and professors (sample blasts: "Gave me an absurdly high grade. Disorganized. Wears white socks." "Lecturer is beneath the usual intellectual level of Harvard professors." "Zzzzzz."). Academic...
That is a duty that the boyishly handsome Bond (he once modeled for Royal Crown Cola posters) is unlikely to shirk. The son of the dean of Atlanta University's school of education, Bond was publicity director of the militant Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee until last September, and has been an articulate advocate and organizer of the New Left. For much of the past year, he has supported his wife and three children by writing and lecturing, now has a book in the works on his rebuffs by the legislature. Title: A Georgia House Is Not a Home...