Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ballet Russe quit Boston last Saturday after a two weeks' run, leaving in the minds of many exactly the same feeling that it had always left, namely that the ballet as exhibited nowadays in the various Ballets Russes is an anachronistic artificial genre, without roots in the life or culture of the people, and totally lacking in appeal to a twentieth-century citizen. Perhaps it is impertinent to talk about ballet in a column devoted to music. But since music frames ballet just as it does opera, I think it fair to discuss ballet in relation to society...
Chamberlain was too stubborn to quit as Prime Minister until he was forced to quit, too stubborn to quit the Government then. His last months were bitter. The cancer that gnawed at his vitals was a part of his personal feud with Hitler, and like most people who have that disease he clung to life while hating it. When it became clear that his operation had not saved his life for long, he resigned from the Cabinet at last...
...quit trying to Kidney. Haweeli think you're fooling." Huey protested. "Your face looks funny, though...
...falsified in the British press. "Actually the good German people do not shout with joy or say 'That's good news.' What they say is 'Oh, those poor British people, think of their families.' " >-"Let us avoid getting into tight corners and above all quit experimenting and trying to pull ourselves by our bootstraps with anesthetic, money-wasting measures, only to get from one hole into a bigger one. ... It will be futile 'for the U. S. to enter the war for she will be too late." ^ The U. S. must prepare to cooperate...
...hope that none of you are either afraid or disheartened, because I am not in the slightest. ... I hear some people shouting to me 'Don't give up.' I guess those people don't know me. . . . Don't be afraid and never quit. Good night...