Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found himself denounced by Bourassa's nationalists as an imperialist, by the Tories of English Canada for disloyalty to Britain. Defeated and embittered, Laurier retired to the Opposition, never regained office, died in 1919. Bourassa's nationalist faith deeply affected French Canadian thought. Although he finally quit politics in 1935, he emerged in World War II to fight conscription as bitterly as he had fought the sending of Canadians to South Africa...
Klein sharpened his marksmanship on grouse and rabbits near his home in New York's Rockland County. He quit interior decorating when he reached his majority and went to work for Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. There he devised the technique of mounting animals in lifelike poses, with wire and plastic molds, which became the standard for modern museums...
...arrived 25 minutes early. An hour later, a fourth of the musicians had not yet turned up. Stokowski abruptly quit...
...Democratic county convention in Dies's home county had officially denounced its Congressman as a "demagogue" three days before he quit. Even more important, Dies for the first time had first-rank opposition, a man who would get the labor vote, but not be tied to it. Fiftyish, iron-grey Judge Jesse Martin Combs, a vigorous jurist, has never been defeated; he is a States' rights critic of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic program but an ardent supporter of the President's foreign policy...
...ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them away from here." Maria's husband spent most of his time in bed, gloomily waiting for the day when the Lewises would throw him out. "It's all dead wood," snapped crazy Grandma...