Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost at the same time, on the floor of the San Francisco conference, Chilean Delegate Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez strode in, waving a copy of the Call-Bulletin with the screamer: NAZIS QUIT. The delegates, who had been listening to a translation of a speech in Spanish, rose and clapped. So did Comrade Molotov, who was presiding...
...Fred Vinson had quit it April 2, after a 29-day occupancy, to become Franklin Roosevelt's War Mobilizer. ) Last week, in his first major appointment, President Truman filled the job. His choice seemed to please everybody...
...Coopers. The Cardinals had more than their rookie outfielder to worry about. Their famed Cooper brothers-Pitcher Mort and Catcher Walker-went on a rampage when they found that Shortstop Marty Marion had been promised a raise over the club's $12,000 ceiling salary, threatened to quit unless their ante was upped from $12,000 to $15,000. The row was no morale booster for the Cards, whose team spirit had been a major factor in their three straight pennants...
...distant blue, long-continued lack of any rest period or of any moment free from fear. Lord Moran defines courage as "a moral quality . . . not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. . . . Some men were able to see more fully than others could that there was no decent alternative to sticking it out and to see this not in a hot moment of impulse...
...QUIT FOR THE NEXT-Lieut. Anthony March-Scribner ($2.50). On Luzon, Captain Kilbride and his cavalry unit fight brilliant delaying actions while Refugee Alex Shelby snatches a last moment of love. Fictional warfare as realistic as a newspaper story...