Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look," said the proprietor, gesturing desperately, "this morning the pipes in the kitchen went out. Fifteen minutes ago the cook quit. Now you want to come in here...
...Crystal Bird Fauset, onetime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, onetime member of the Pennsylvania Legislature (its first and only Negro woman), quit the Democratic National Committee's offices in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, walked two blocks up Madison Avenue to join the G.O.P. at the Roosevelt Hotel. Said she: "Bob Hannegan is a dictator-a man who is not willing to deal democratically with Negroes...
...clipped Mr. Clayton's power (see above). Where he ruled alone, a three-man board will henceforth dispose of the estimated $100 billion in surplus war goods. Previously, Clayton had informed Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes that he would not be one of the three; he wanted to quit. His reason: Congress has turned surplus property disposal into a political grab bag. The U.S., he felt, should get what cash it can out of selling surpluses; it should not let them be parceled out among Government agencies by a political board with divided authority...
...Bulgaria quit a fortnight earlier, was still awaiting terms...
...Quit India, quit India, quit India...