Word: dutybound
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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When they retired and their kids left home, the couple, always active volunteers, felt dutybound to do even more. "Coming to the U.S. and [having the chance] to capitalize on so many opportunities, we always had the feeling that we'd been given so much blessing, and there was only one reason why--to share with the less fortunate," says Mervyn...
...often felt obligated to present these diverse views. On the campus paper there, I edited feature stories and had little desire to influence other sections of the paper. But when some minority students complained about the lack of diversity in our coverage and on our staff, I felt dutybound to press other editors to cover minorities more and explore ways to recruit more black students. When students debated whether Yale should have a day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I saw this as a largely symbolic issue that I wasn't passionately interested in. But eventually I found...