Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concerning the picture and article of Ana Maria Alvarez Calderón, the Western Hemisphere beauty queen [TIME, Nov. 21], quit teasing us and print a full-length shot of her. MORTY SCHIFF DON WHITE William Jewell College Liberty...
Dean Acheson tried to give an answer of sorts at his weekly press conference. The U.S. did not recognize the Nationalist blockade, he said, because the Nationalists could not make it effective. But the State Department wished fervently that U.S. ships would quit trying to run the blockade. Acheson added that there was a difference between having a legal right and going to all possible lengths to enforce legal rights...
...Bridges perjured himself at his naturalization proceedings in 1945 when he swore that he had never been a Communist. Schomaker had served as business agent of Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, but lost the job in a union election in 1938 and eventually quit the union...
...have their own federation (International Federation of Christian Trade Unions), were being excluded from the new organization. Reuther patched up this fight by a compromise: the Catholic unions (which are among the toughest anti-Communist fighters on the Continent) would be invited to come in, but would have to quit or disband their own international organization within two years...
...that Pancho's booming cannonball service was becoming steadily more accurate-and at the same time steadily less effective. But Big Jake, seven years older and wiser than 21-year-old Pancho, had the explanation: "I wait a little longer on his serve and I've quit guessing where it's going to go. I know now. He has a way of telegraphing where it's headed...