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Word: shirked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been thinking about how fans--completely unathletic in their own right--find great joy in sports but also use them as a way to shirk their problems...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: The Family-Sports Connection | 5/2/1995 | See Source »

...fact that Asian Americans as a whole don't participate politically. It's an important priority for AAA not to shirk from addressing political issues," she says. "Of course there will be disagreement, but we need to be careful not to continue that passive stance. I don't think disagreement should be a reason not to deal with political issues...

Author: By Jessica C. Schell, | Title: Campus Asian Groups Abound | 11/18/1994 | See Source »

...think a universal guideline is something Harvard cannot shirk from," says Hassen A. Sayeed '96, who worked on the council's TF training proposal last year when he was chair of the student affairs committee...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Departments Start Planning TF Training; But Is It Enough? | 10/7/1994 | See Source »

Just once you'd like to start out early, free from memory and lighter for it. Like Adam, on that first day: alone but cheerful, no fear of the maker, anything his for the naming; nothing to shrink from, nothing to shirk, no lot to carry that wasn't by choice...

Author: By Tracy K. Smity, | Title: The Ordinary Life | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...Almost Biweekly) decided to break ideological stride with the co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (Radcliffe's Liberal Always). The continued existence of Radcliffe, they argued, is patronizing to women, similar to the sexism exhibited by the final clubs, and so long as it exists, Harvard can shirk on its responsibility to its female student body...

Author: By Kelly M. Bowdren, | Title: Right for the Wrong Reasons | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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