Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House convened next day, the wrangling began all over again. For six hours that afternoon and six the next, the debate ranged over familiar, barren ground. Michigan's Clare Hoffman, who is bitterly isolationist and antiCommunist, rose up to quote from Washington's Farewell Address: "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?" Then, quite unpredictably, he branded the danger of world Communism "a false doctrine...
...great U.S. buying boom had collapsed or even slackened. Actually, the nation was in the throes of the greatest dollar-volume buying spree in history. In Manhattan one day last week, Macy's sold $1,400,000 worth of merchandise-an alltime record- and smugly decided to quit publicizing million-dollar days. Department stores in almost every other big city in the nation had record sales days...
...figure that would make it the biggest baseball deal ever swung. But Sam Breadon, baseball's supersalesman, didn't look happy. His chin trembled and he went on haltingly: "I feel very badly. ... It's such a big organization and so successful." Bob Hannegan, who quit as Postmaster General (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to take Sam's place as boss of the Cardinals, stepped forward to put a reassuring hand on his shoulder...
...Every day I am less sufficient, and at my age it's time to quit...
Hill himself quit a $15,000 job as superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools to go back South "because I can do more here than anywhere else." Hill landed in education quite by accident; while recuperating from an auto crash in Arkansas, he took a job teaching-for $65 a month...