Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Jim Horner's money ran out. Arthur had to quit his religious studies, take a job in the coal pits. But he kept preaching. His sermons became tinged with socialism, and gradually only socialism remained. The mine owners fired him and he was blacklisted in all the Welsh mines. When World War I broke out, he refused to bear arms in what he called "an imperialist and anti-working-class...
...Pauline, who ignores it, then does a double take: "Oh, are you supposed to run after it?" Sarah tells Pauline: "You're holding your arm wrong." Replies Pauline: "I can't do much about it. I was born with my arm attached to my shoulder." When they quit clowning and played tennis, the crowd usually breathed a sigh of relief...
...population (a mere 400 specimens when he arrived). He designed and supervised the building of a new reptile house; its natural-habitat display cases, with fluorescent lighting, set a new standard for U.S. zoos. But he had difficulties; the Buffalo Zoo was mired in city politics. In 1944, he quit and went to Chicago...
That attitude got him through the tough grind which made good golfers spray tee shots into the wire-haired rough, even quit in disgust...
...country's first combine, six tractors, and blooded Holstein-Friesian herds. In 1938 he became Defense Minister. Galo Plaza quelled one students' strike by ringing the university with troops, entering and dragging out the two ringleaders by the scruff of their necks, then persuading the rest to quit...