Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major's only brother, Fred Sinsel, quit high school and enlisted in the Army the day America entered World...
Dybenko was purged in 1938 but not the redoubtable Kollontay. She survived "deviations" which would have doomed another Russian. Twice in the Revolution's early years she quit the party. Once she started a "workers' opposition"; Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin joined forces to destroy it but did not destroy her. An old hand at Bolshevik ways said recently: "When you think of the political company Kollontay kept and the casual way she treated the party line, you realize she must have been a hell of a beautiful something to by-pass liquidation...
Then M.G.M. Publicity Chief Howard Strickling quit hedging, formally announced that the production was "indefinitely" postponed-which is diplomatic dialect for forever...
Whattya Know, Joe? Baker's happiness is based on the great discovery that most people do not know very much. Take It or Leave It gives each of five people from the studio audience a chance to answer seven questions correctly (or quit with a cash prize after any number of correct answers less than seven). Seven correct answers in a row nets the maximum $64. All that Baker has to do is ask the questions - prepared by a Smith College girl who was the only one in her class to flunk meteorology-and make everyone feel good...
Head in hands, sportswriter Tod Schoonover stared at the telephone, suddenly grabbed it. Sacramento's Chamber of Commerce had tried to outbid Tacoma, raised a scrawny $8,000 and quit. He would make one last effort. Frenetically Schoonover phoned sporting friends-bowling alley operators, golfers, promoters, cafe owners. Ninety minutes later he had promises of $22,000. Yubi Separovich added $2,000. He and Edmonds then started after every solvent fan in town. In 48 hours they had $53,000, barely caught the night train to Los Angeles for the P.C.L. meeting...