Word: shirkers
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Conscientious Shirker...
...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
...climbed on the back of our Trojan buddie Randolph "Pits" Phillips, editorially speaking, but he really isn't the soap-shirker we make him out to be. Oh, did you hear how the Count de Wright got pigeoned into going down for cakes? Oh, well, you can't have your own cake...
...Pacific, students still believe they are at peace within the sheltering walls of the Yard. But today a liberal education must include the facts of war. Keeping informed is a part of war-time responsibility, and the student who waits complacently for his number to be called is a shirker in a total war. Last night's performance places the majority of Harvard men among the ranks of those who persist in business as usual...
...shirker, Ringmaster's ringmaster wrote his own opening article under the pseudonym of "Guy McHerring.'' An extraordinary piece of prose called Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Stieglitz and Splendour, it seemed to be intended as political fantasy...