Word: shirking
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...reports . . . will not penalize him as a man. If he sees men around him dismissed from their positions for less than the most serious reasons, because of popular clamor, or on anything less than the most solid proof, it would not be surprising if he were then to shirk his own basic responsibility in the field of learning to press...
...When Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul H. Douglas found that "the acute problems of the times have shaped my resolution," running for re-election became a matter of simple duty. Said Paul Douglas: "No one . . . can shirk the hard fight ... if freedom is to be preserved and prosperity maintained...
Soap Lord McElroy, who speaks feudalistically of the "ordinary people . . . who win wars for us," shrugs off a job even the feudal lords did not shirk: they, at least, usually realized that raising artistic standards was not alone "the problem of the schools" but the moral and social responsibility of those whose money supported artistic media...
...dine on $11.25 meals, charging them to the tax payer and do not vote themselves tax free raises and expense funds. Is a law constitutional which forces upon teachers a humiliation--that is, the admission that without the pledge to teach to the best of their ability, they will shirk their duty? Suppose these legislators framed a bill for teachers to get on their knees and recite five times "I'll be a good teacher," would that still have to be accepted as law? The fact that private colleges are tax free does not give state legislators the right...
...street. "And the boat was loaded!"-with a cargo worth more than 500 lire, a vast sum to simple fishermen. The owner of the cargo could sooner have gathered figs from thistles than money from these destitutes; but in loyalty to their code of honor the Malavoglia would not shirk the debt. "We are ruined," said Grandfather 'Ntoni quietly-and began with all his humble means to resist the fact...