Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer in Spartanburg, S.C. (pop. 32,249). He had been passed over for the Vice Presidency at Chicago; he had been passed over again for Secretary of State when Ed Stettinius got the job. Shortly after Yalta, tired and worn out, disgusted and fed up, Byrnes quit as War Mobilizer. But on the second day of the Truman Administration he was back at the White House, conferring with the man whom he had known in the Senate. He lay low during San Francisco, but after it was over he got the job which everybody had prophesied he would...
...happy, peaceful moment, the victors were content to survey the inscrutable vanquished and to be glad the Japs had had sense enough to quit. One G.I. looked from a plane at the tumbled hills and mountains of Honshu's spine and said: "Am I glad I don't have to fight over this country-just like Okinawa...
...Indo-China the Japanese were ready to quit, but the French expected trouble from Japanese-incited natives. The British, with negotiations completed for the surrender of Singapore's city and fortress, feared the same sort of difficulty...
...market prices. He spent some $9,500 for shipping baskets, wrapping paper, etc. while he and his wife were doing some of the planting. Then Hudson started traveling up & down the valley, spreading his idea, hired a crew to run his planter. Three weeks ago he quit the U.P., got ready for the critical first harvest...
...country was in an uproar. Only the soldiers and cops seemed to be still loyal to the strong man. Two key members of the Cabinet quit. Even President Edelmiro Farrell, disgusted with puppet doodling, was reportedly threatening to resign...