Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action, attack, offense, let's quit fooling around...
With the authority of one of the Allies' two greatest fighting leaders, in a fighter's forthright style, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week told Britain to quit stalling on the subject of India's political freedom. The Gissimo was still visiting in India (TIME, Feb. 23), where he had just talked with Mohandas Gandhi, but his words sounded to faraway London like a thunderclap...
...Britain's ablest corporation lawyers, Sir Stafford quit practice in the '305, saying that he was tired of "taking large sums of money from one capitalist to give it to another capitalist." Thereafter he became even better known for his Christianity, vegetarianism (he was nicknamed "Christ and Carrots") and socialism. Before the war he was ejected from the Labor Party for advocating a popular front. Like Winston Churchill, he constantly foretold war, attacked the Munich men. As Ambassador to Russia, he favored a British-Russian coalition against Hitler...
...Married men up to 35, single men up to 45 were made subject to military call. Every other able-bodied person in Australia, including enemy aliens not interned, became subject to call for war work. Employes on war jobs were forbidden to quit or be absent from work without good reason...
...quit his job with Owen Young to study some more. This time it was the history of money; he wound up teaching it at Harvard's Business School, where he became assistant dean...