Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went hysterical over saving waste paper and immediately were advised to quit and send it to the dump. We sacrificed much usable aluminum on a like drive, only to find that it was not suitable for airplanes. We had the tin-can bungle and the canceled postage-stamp fiasco. These panicky and snap drives have plainly got the people dubious on Washington advice...
Decision. In jampacked Washington, harried Felix Finzel, a bus driver, pulled up to the curb, put on the emergency brake, got out and quit bus driving forever, leaving a busful of argumentative passengers to their own devices...
...branch was gibbeted in an unauthorized report by a $5,600-a-year WPB hireling, it was about the last straw. Last week, when his new steel quota plan (TIME, Aug. 24) seemed to have been lost in a shuffle of compromise around Donald Nelson, Reese Taylor up and quit...
Carlson began to train the battalion for kill-&-run work last December. He got his grounding in such warfare in China, where he campaigned with China's famed Communist Eighth Route Army. When the Navy Department tried to shush his outspoken praise of the Chinese he quit the Marine Corps. He returned to duty after...
...Quit Stalling. Caught between two implacable enemies, Bombay industrialists urged an end to an "intolerable situation." The ultra-British Times of India said: "Authorities have suspected for some time the presence of a Fifth Column in this country, and political turmoil has probably given strength to this element* to come out into the open. In one way such activity helps the authorities to locate danger spots, but the urgent problem is to bring about a better frame of mind among the general public...