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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...
...virtues, as summed up by pig-tailed Rita Eversole, 13: "the ability to laugh, her readiness to take criticism, her open-mindedness, her patience with someone who trys . . . her sternness with those who shirk, her ability to make a subject interesting and her fairness. . . . She was the kind of teacher who did not pretend to know everything...
...indeed. To the microphone went Prime Minister Clement Attlee himself. But he had only cold comfort to give. Said he: Britain cannot shirk her obligation to maintain forces in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East; hence the Bevin plan for gradual demobilization must stand. Two days later, Isaacs again endorsed the plan. "Hell," said a colonel over from Germany, "these aren't the men we voted...
...after he took the 305th Bombardment Group to England in 1942. In the early bombing of Europe, U.S. airmen were often less than successful and Colonel LeMay perceived the reason: the bombers were taking evasive action in the face of heavy German ack-ack and fighter interception; pilots would shirk from holding their course the five or six minutes necessary to make good, sound bombing runs. LeMay announced that he would bomb the Brest submarine yards himself, and that he would hit the target...