Word: shucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper inveighed against hasty and witless weddings. Cried Cleveland's Probate Judge Nelson Brewer: "Those young men who are unpatriotic and ungallant enough to marry purposely to evade the draft will leave their wives when the emergency ends." Said the Los Angeles Times: "Persons who take responsibilities lightly shuck them with equal facility. . . . The mass effect upon our social institutions of debasing matrimony into a funkhole for slackers is hardly an uplifting...