Word: shirking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope listed four principles for a Catholic judge to follow: 1) He "cannot shirk responsibility for his decisions and place the blame on the law and its authors. When he delivers a sentence in accordance with the law, the judge becomes an accessory to the fact and therefore is equally responsible for its results." 2) The judge "can never pass a sentence which would oblige those affected by it to perform an intrinsically immoral act . . ."3) "Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval...
...college, John W. Taylor* insists, should have two student bodies: one on its campus and one in its community. After 18 years of teaching and administration (at Columbia and Louisiana State University), he was convinced that most U.S. colleges shirk their civic responsibilities. When he became president of the University of Louisville three months ago, he decided that he would not make their mistake. "We're here to bring academic information to the sons and daughters of Louisville," he said, and set to work on a plan to give a college education to every Louisvillian who wanted...
...reasons. Yet, if the quality of teaching is to rise (360,000 teachers have not gone beyond the college sophomore level) it is precisely these educated people who must be attracted and held. The states are responsible for education, but mere historical precedent cannot allow the Federal government to shirk a financial role any longer. For education, unlike bridges or garbage disposal units, cannot be used or misused by any one state isolated from the other 47. Not only do millions move from one state to another, carrying with them their educations, good or bad, but the sum total...
Sawing & Skiing. Work details at Cardigan are voluntary; goldbricks who shirk them get a cold shoulder from their buddies, but no other punishment. Cardigan officially frowns on "highly competitive sports [which] do more harm than good" for younger boys, gives them plenty of hiking, fishing, skating and skiing instead. On its 140 acres, the school also owns an old mill with a water-driven saw, where students will make furniture under the eye of a teacher who used to be foreman in a furniture shop...
That was the nub of Jimmy Byrnes's speech, and he said it so that no one could misunderstand: "We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world. ... I want no misunderstanding. We will not shirk our duty. We are not withdrawing. As long as an occupation force is required in Germany the Army of the United States will be a part of that occupation force...