Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow delinquents have been charged with second-degree murder; 2) the remaining boy prisoners have been moved to new quarters with a new supervisor (the University of Washington's boxing-wrestling coach); 3) Seattle has a new county jail superintendent; 4) eight mothers working in a Seattle factory quit to go back to housekeeping...
Words, Words, Words. Michigan's burly Hook flushed, seemed to be trying to keep hold of himself. Said he: "And we hope to hold them down. And if the gentleman from Mississippi will quit his raving and ranting and get down and at least assist the good citizens of the C.I.O., he would probably be doing a service to this country...
Lieut. Will Rogers Jr., son of the late great humorist, and a Congressman from California who quit politics for war, was promoted to first lieutenant and awarded the Bronze Star for "heroism" in leading a patrol during the Battle of the Bulge...
...above all, U.S. women are lonely. Some hide it behind cheerfulness or a bright, hard face, but the loneliness is there. The women want their men to come home. With a unanimity which would startle oldtime feminists, they want to quit their jobs, settle down and have children. Three years of war, much of it spent in furnished rooms or with in-laws or in trailers or small hotels or at embarkation points, has put a lonely light around the little white cottage...
Student and Stowaway. A meteoric manager, Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz) is a volcanic man. Born in Newark (though he later said he was born in Vienna), he read omnivorously at Yale for two years, then quit. He bummed his way west and then abroad, coming home a stowaway in a tramp steamer. Home now meant Broadway. Harris became a press agent for the Shuberts and "stamped and cried with rage" at the way his bosses butchered scripts. When he had saved up $3,000 he started producing...