Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
...Organization to Encourage People to quit Organizations was founded by the Rev. Howard W. Stone of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Ind., in the hope that it would give people more time to go to church. The organization's motto: "Be a Quitter"; its password...
...guarantee that Madison's newspapers will stay that way. Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian stock and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Evjue became managing editor of the Journal at 29. In 1917, when the paper attacked the late great Senator Robert M. LaFollette for his pacifism, Evjue quit to found the Times. (He later edited LaFollette's Progressive on the side.) The Times has been expressing Evjue's strident personality ever since. From the start, Evjue faced a financial struggle that made him a penny-pinching editor. His circulation is now the state's largest...
...plan would order Jews and Arabs to evacuate designated zones, settle all outstanding truce problems, reduce military forces and declare a permanent armistice. The Negeb desert, Bunche thought, would provide a good starting point. According to blueprints produced by a U.N. subcommittee, the Jews would be ordered to quit all of the Negeb (except for a small corner in the north); the Egyptians would abandon their few remaining pockets, keeping only the coastal area and a narrow strip just north of the Egyptian frontier. Beersheba, one of Israel's most treasured war prizes, would return to the Arabs under...
...head of the medical staff of Washington's army, he insisted on hospital reforms, quit the service when he failed to get them and became openly critical of the commander-in-chief. When Lewis & Clark started on their famous expedition, President Jefferson asked Rush to tell Lewis what information he ought to bring back. Sample queries: "What are the acute diseases of the Indians? Is suicide common among them? Ever from love...