Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the fight came into the open on Easter Sunday, when all but 60 of the 1,100 ministers in 97%-Lutheran Norway's State Church quit their posts rather than cooperate with the puppet regime, Vidkun Quisling lost round after round...
Compulsion of a handful of protesting students would have been easy as it would have been useless. A dozen or so organized Pacifists have been allowed by the H. A. A. to quit drills and military calisthenics for less bellicose means of accomplishing the same thing. Going even farther, the Deans have excused from all athletics one extremist who felt that all forms of exercise at Harvard were for the sole purpose of building soldiers. Although embracing even aliens and 4-F's, compulsory athletics was fortunately limited before it could do harm. No blind urge for conformity has forced...
...Stafford had fought too many tough legal battles to quit after the first round. And this was the biggest battle of his life. If Sir Stafford succeeded, he might be a hero for all time. If he failed, people might admire him for having undertaken a stupendous task, but his political future might be jeopardized. If he failed, the future of both Britain and India would be dark. If he succeeded, a new and better world might be born of the travail of empire...
...Will the public, in so far as it has been buying to anticipate higher prices rather than to anticipate scarcity, quit buying and live for a time on its hoardings when prices are frozen? And if so, how will merchants with large inventories be hit by such a slump in buying...
Wall Street is still retrenching. The New York Curb Exchange last week announced that it had bought back 50 seats, thus cut its membership to 500. The 50 seats, at $1,000 each (1929 high: $254,000), were bought from estates of deceased members and fellow brokers who had quit the game...