Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace he enjoys a good fight. When his troops have landed he goes ashore as soon as possible, carbine over his shoulder. On Makin he came upon a young lieutenant firing madly at nothing visible. "Son," said General Smith, "if you don't quit that wild shooting I'm going to take your gun away from you." From Makin soon after the battle had ended, he flew to Tarawa. He walked through little Betio Island's 5,000 enemy and U.S. dead with the 2nd Marine Division's Major General Julian Smith.* A few minutes after...
...this was not what angered Davis at Sherwood's Manhattan trio. He accused them of running their own show instead of carrying out the weekly Washington "directives" on how to slant news for overseas. Eight weeks ago, the London office's three best men quit over the same issue. Davis ordered Sherwood to fire Barnes, Warburg and Johnson. Sherwood refused. Forthwith Davis put the whole problem in Franklin Roosevelt...
...Argentine Government is swinging toward democracy. Three notoriously pro-Nazi Ministers have left the Cabinet, and there is talk of further housecleaning. On the other hand, Arturo Rawson, pro-Ally Ambassador to Brazil, who sent a congratulatory message to President Ramirez, was answered with a stinging rebuke and quit his job. Unless there is a radical change in Buenos Aires, the U.S. and Britain will find themselves in bed with still another technically friendly, fascist-type regime...
Gothenburg, Neb.'s Beulah I. Hilblink : of the 112,000 U.S. public schoolteachers who quit their classrooms in 1942-43, she was one who helped solve the teacher shortage by returning to her classroom. Quitting a Washington job, she made a statement which has been read by thousands of teachers: "If in the years of peace ... I am asked, 'What did you contribute toward our victory?' I shall be glad and proud to answer,'I was a teacher...
...airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed the A.L.P.A. (4,500 members), which he helped found. Reasonable in his dealings with management, Behncke has been unrelentingly stubborn about safety measures...