Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought that the Jap had quit. No one thought seriously that MacArthur's men were to be evacuated, or that they would get help. But while the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East were on their feet the fight would go on, blackly determined in action, flecked with the fine gold of good American humor when it got a breathing spell...
...most unsung hero of World War II had last week gained control of 20,000 of the 96,000 square miles of a nation which Adolf Hitler imagined he had conquered early last spring. The Nazis had quit trying to dislodge Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich from the cold mountains southwest of Belgrade and had retired to that city to await warmer weather. General Mihailovich was issuing passports for "Unoccupied Serbia," which he also called "an island of freedom...
...Vermont Republican Robert E. Healy, sole remaining "charter member" of the five-man SEC, Franklin Roosevelt last week sent a message: would he please reconsider his resignation? This was not the first time that temperamental "Judge" Healy, sore at New Deal politicking within the commission, had threatened to quit. But never before had he gone so far as to submit his resignation...
...Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...
...dealers will quit. Many of the big ones hope to pay the bills with the take from used cars and service. Some well-equipped dealers are even figuring on subcontracted war orders for their ma chine shops. But all saw a future of hard work, little profit...