Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Hatred." The next day, Senator Brewster told newsmen that he regretted having brought up the story about the airline hostess. Then he quit the capital and flew off (in an American Airlines plane) to a vacation in Maine. But Howard Hughes was not through. He turned his guns on the Army. He and Noah Dietrich contended that it was "personal dislike" of Hughes by Major General Oliver Echols (wartime chief of Air Forces procurement) which blocked Hughes's efforts to speed building of the 200-ton "Hercules" and the XF-11 camera plane. And it was "Army hatred...
...colleagues had grumbled about staying in the same hotels with them. So said Dr. Marshall L. Shepard, of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A.'s Foreign Mission Board. Dr. Shepard threatened, unless an apology was forthcoming, to call upon 4,000,000 U.S. Negro Baptists to quit the Alliance...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...
Robert Taft had steam up. Last week, with Congress just about ready to quit, he pulled the whistle. This week the Taft campaign train would begin to roll, and Ohio's plugging Senator would be off on what he hoped was the right track to the Republican presidential nomination...
Humphrey built up a cult of admirers, but Weidman kept wondering "if the audience really understands this business." When Doris quit dancing two years ago, he decided to do a dance "as understandable and popular as the movies." His choice: Thurber's Fables for Our Time...