Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Hall, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (who wept during the parade) presented him with a gold medal, introduced him in squeaky superlatives. The General replied: "New York simply can't do this to a Kansas farmer boy and keep its reputation for sophistication." But again, as he talked, he quit smiling. Said he: "Can the parents of those children look ten years ahead and be satisfied with anything less than [their] best to keep them . . . from the horrors of the battlefield...
...threw a rulebook at him and ordered: "Study them. You're captain." Soon Ott's bleacher friends, who always shouted advice to their favorite right fielder, noted the little difference that responsibilities made and began calling him Ottie. So did the players and the management. Then Terry quit the bench for a front-office job. The Giants' secretary, fidgety, coffee-drinking Eddie Brannick, had an idea: "God gave us some thing. Let's use it." Giants' President Horace Stoneham agreed. Ott was the surprise something...
Forgetting to quit, once he had been whipped to the front, was a lazy-looking 12-to-1 shot called Polynesian. He was even pulling away at the end of his upset $66,170 race. Hoop Jr., three times second in three previous races over the Baltimore track, finished second and lame- 0 and 1 half lengths back. Far off last year's championship form (and his workout), Pavot ran an unexciting fifth, helped to make the feverish search for a three-year-old champion even harder...
...University of Chicago's Quadrangle (faculty) Club, from which President Robert M. Hutchins resigned last year when a prospective candidate was blackballed for the first time in club history (TIME, Dec. 11), 17 student-waiters last week quit in a body because of the club's "illiberal membership attitude." Other students promptly began picketing the club...
...Nation calls the Soviet's "bad behavior" to small neighbors.) This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation now has a 'line' and omits whatever does not fit the 'line...