Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dishes, made the beds and went to school. But she still found time for three miles of swimming every day. Now that she is 19, Ann Curtis is convinced that the business of being a champion swimmer is a full time job in itself. Two months ago she quit her home economics course at the University of California. She felt that she had to concentrate if she wanted to win three of the women's National A.A.U. indoor championships...
...faster the armies drove through Germany the happier grew the U.S. Senate. By the time Jimmy Byrnes had quit his job as War Mobilizer, after explaining that V-E day was now in sight (see below), Senators in both parties were beaming. Now was the time to face the politically troublesome manpower issue. The Senate faced it by defeating the compromise manpower bill...
...while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted to get over to all G.I.s: quit worrying. After the war. there will be at least five to seven years' prosperity, "no matter what is done or not done...
This first phony peace rumor hardly had a chance to be denied last week before a new one cropped up. In San Francisco, a flash arrived from SHAEF: Eisenhower says Germans are whipped. Hearst's International News Service sent out an announcement that Germany had quit. Los Angeles Radio Station KHJ repeated...
...calls jammed the New York Times's switchboard. The Los Angeles City Council rose to its feet, solemnly recited the Oath of Allegiance, then learned that it had wasted its breath. All over the U.S., War Manpower Commission offices got calls from war workers, asking if they could quit their jobs now. Coming within two hours of each other, the two flashes gave the U.S. its biggest artificial pickup and letdown since the A.P.'s phony D-day flash last June...