Word: shirked
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...have a real responsibility to show the world that they are not parties to such persecution. They can show that by their help and aid when it is asked in the next few weeks or next few months. Non-Jews have a responsibility in this matter that they cannot shirk without betraying the very principles of the ethics and religion of which they boast...
Another cataract must be lifted from the royal eyes. Siamese surgeons again shirk the job. Presumably it will be done by famed Manhattan ophthalmologist Dr. John Martin Wheeler who operated successfully on King Prajadhipok...
...removal of the rule providing that higher police officers must first pass through the ranks; greater insistence on the educational qualifications of candidates: establishment of a "police college" to train promising younger men on the force. ''It seems to me impossible.'' he wrote, "longer to shirk the problem of how to obtain a steady supply of the best brains from every available source...
...Civil War pensions as a "bad principle." Senator Robinson tried to discredit N. E. L. by showing that Lobbyist Bullitt also represented Associated Gas & Electric, "one of the most reckless units in the power trust." The Indianian insisted N. E. L. was being supported by wealthy taxpayers trying to shirk their share of War costs...
...connection with your editorial on that subject. You are, it seems to me, correct in asserting that the administration of any system adopted has no bearing upon the question on the whole, any arrangement which is reasonable can probably be worked. But it does appear to me that you shirk the one primary issue, an issue to which you allude casually among your list of objections and one of whose importance it is hard to convince those who criticize the present arrangement. This important point is the bearing of eating in the House upon the creation of a corporate personality...