Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genial, gangling Pennsylvania Dutchman whose foresight and tenacity once did much to save a whole industry. When radio was born, it swept U.S. music lovers off their feet, swept the mechanical phonograph into the dustbin. But Shumaker of Victor phonographs (who later became Victor's president) did not quit. He believed in the possibilities of electrified phonograph recording and reproduction. Driven by him, Victor scrapped its elaborate machinery, began making a new type of machine and record. Electrified, the industry went on to its greatest boom...
Long Night. Snorting, shortening his range, Churchill urged Eden to stay on. Talks important to Britain impended with the arrival of U.S. Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. It would be harmful if Eden quit on the eve of these discussions...
...every opportunity to undertake civil administration" in liberated France (subject to General Eisenhower). By this promise Hull seemed to grant the Committee's most important demand. But General Giraud was still unhappy. The Allies' dethroned protégé sulked and brooded over his "humiliation," threatened to quit Algiers. Stubborn General Giraud visited stubborn General de Gaulle; rumor said that their talk was disagreeable and "not so well...
...once, many Britons found themselves close to New York's anglophobic Daily News, which said: ". . . Churchill suddenly gave way to petulance . . . told the Commons in effect that if they didn't reverse themselves on this purely domestic little issue he would quit running their old global war for them...
...cast his ballot like any other M.P. He was plainly tired, but smiling and convivial. In voting line he said to surrounding backbenchers: "I'm not going about on the bottom of the cage like a wounded canary. Either they put me back on the perch-or I quit the cage altogether...