Word: quit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was no way last week for the world to know what orders were going to the German front commanders from the tottering, feuding citadel of Nazidom. It was possible that most German commanders were making their own decisions whether to fight, flee or quit. At this climax of the war, it made little difference what they chose...
...want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School. At 20 he was teaching mathematics in Texas' Rice Institute. He soon quit...
...Primer continues: "To the average American, politicians are crooks. . . . The truth is that politicians are no more corrupt than the people who elect them. The people corrupt the politicians. . . . Let's quit blaming the politicians and face the responsibility of full citizenship. . . . Let's become politicians ourselves...
...anemia, weak heart & kidneys had sapped his body. His wife had died. All the leading members of the Congress Working Committee had been jailed since they voted an ultimatum to Great Britain to leave India to the Indians immediately or face mass civil disobedience (Gandhi's famed, fateful "Quit India" resolution...
...name of Cordell Hull occurs just once in Sumner Welles's book on the past, present & future of U.S. foreign policy. Inasmuch as former Undersecretary of State Welles quit his post because of basic differences between himself and Mr. Hull, such diplomatic restraint might argue a mealymouthed, chilly and platitudinously correct book. Surprisingly enough, Mr. Welles writes a sprightly prose, hits straight from the shoulder when he is discussing what he considers State Department mistakes, and plants himself flat-footedly on the issues which he holds to be important...