Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were strains and irritations in their new life. Albert, who had never touched liquor, began coming home drunk. Then he quit going to church, spent half their savings on a car. Then he took up with an 18-year-old girl war-worker. Josie-Lee went to the tire plant, where she fought her rival with fists and fingernails. She won, but Albert, who had watched, simply walked away with the weeping loser...
...many U.S. warships had World War II cost? Last week the Navv told. Beginning with the destroyer Reuben James, sunk on Atlantic patrol by a U-boat five weeks before Pearl Harbor, and ending with the submarine Bullhead, which disappeared in the Java Sea just as Japan quit, the total was 701. The list included 157 first-line combat ships, plus 544 supporting ships and auxiliaries ranging from troopships to 15-ton yard craft...
Norton Simon climbed to his tin can throne by a simple formula: don't start a business yourself; buy up those already started and run them better. The son of a dry-goods merchant, Simon enrolled at the University of California when he was 17. He quit a few weeks later because he was making too much money-selling paper products and from investments in a small theater where he had put his profits-to waste his time in school. He went to work for a steel-products firm, quit to buy his first business, a steel jobbing plant...
Long's son, Richard, quit his job in a grocery to preach: "Repent ye and be baptized for the appointed day is near at hand." This got only 25 converts. Determined to save what fragment he could, Long got the 50 members of his church together for fasting, singing and praying, finally announced, "We are ready...
...Astaire, 46, who twinkletoed to fame with brother Fred in many a musi-comedy (Funny Face, The Band Wagon) before she became Lady Charles Cavendish, returned to Manhattan as effervescent as ever after a decade of country gentility in England and Eire. She announced that Fred had decided to quit hoofing after his next picture ("which pleases me, for I want the boy to live awhile"). She thought that U.S. living would put her in better shape: "It is wonderful to see all the lovely girdles. You know our posteriors have spread quite a bit over there...