Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...added, with candor and wisdom: "There's been too many rotten fights the past few months and I've never been connected with any stink in the boxing game. My timing's off, my punches go wild too often and it's time I quit...
...staff were not so sure that the New Republic could keep Henry Wallace and its independence as well. William Harlan Hale, articles editor, pleaded with Straight to cut Wallace loose. Anything less, he argued, would be a "virtual endorsement" of Wallace-for-President. When Straight said no, Hale quit...
...peeve: flying schools. In the air-conscious area in & about Los Angeles, the VA has footed a $3,523,385 tuition bill to date-and much of the money, says Price, was squandered. As soon as the initial glamor wore off, 4,144 would-be pilots quit without finishing their training. Radio announcing is another snare: Los Angeles stations employ only 140 regular announcers, and there is a waiting list of 475 already. And yet many ex-G.I.s are enrolled at four announcing schools in Los Angeles alone...
...Hall, who leaves no heir (his older brother Don, once renounced all claims to kingship in the event of Anthony's success), campaigned for the throne with dignity but persistence, addressed some 2,000 outdoor meetings. At various times he sent a notice to King George V to quit, plumped for the return of the American colonies to Britain, and tried to build up the royal exchequer by selling "pound notes"-redeemable after the restoration-for a penny each...
...open, and there stood the Kid, a Winchester in his right hand and a revolver in his left. He was a mere boy in years and appearance-nineteen, five feet seven, thin, light-haired, blue-eyed. This was the terrible Kid, companion of thieves and murderers since he had quit school at the age of eleven, ruthless killer of at least six men (some said nineteen...