Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor mental balance may develop hysterical blindness, paralysis, stiff joints, which will genuinely disqualify him as a fighter (hysteria rarely occurs in newly wounded men-presumably because real wounds eliminate them from battle). Another common type of war breakdown is the hallucinatory reliving of terrifying scenes. A psychopath may quit fighting, give way to panic, or commit suicide. Still other men will brood over every step of a battle, with remorse for their own inadequacy, or for having participated in killing...
Kieran's own formal explanation of why he quit the Times: what with newspapering and pleasing with information (not counting increasingly frequent, nonprofitable radio appearances selling war bonds, etc.) he has been much too busy to do the traveling to sports events his Times job required. Sports fans had noticed his columns getting more erudite and less sporty. Whereas he did seven columns a week for the Times he will write only five for the Stm, and will be able to do them at home, sending his copy to the Sun office and to the Bell Syndicate, which will...
When the rocking-chair strategist, the political hamstringers and the Cal Tinneys were nasaling for a second front in Europe I didn't say, "The Russians will quit if we don't open up a second front in Europe!" Later, when the second front was opened up in North Africa, I didn't say, "I knew all along they was planning a second front in North Africa...
Despite a five-day week, despite Saturdays and Sundays in New York, despite a maximum disciplinary penalty of being turned back to their draft boards, and despite a scale of living which costs the country $60,000 a day, nearly 15% of all those enrolled since Sept. 1 have quit in midcourse. Stay-ons salute them as "Sucker...
Last week a tone of desperate urgency crept into official pleas for more industrial and residential conversion from oil to coal for heating. James C. Richdale, chairman of the New England Council Liquid Fuel Committee, said: "We've got to quit talking about 75% [of normal fuel oil needs] we've got to tell the truth." The truth was that consumers may not get 50% of their needs...