Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here were some of the reasons for the Moscow impasse. The Soviet leaders wanted the U.S. to quit Europe and go home. "Then they would automatically dominate the whole continent." Dulles did not believe that the Soviet leaders wanted war. "They are too smart to challenge us at a level where, temporarily at least, they are at a grave disadvantage. The present challenge is at a level where they are well equipped and where we are poorly equipped...
...pump politics in South Carolina, when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role as that of mediator-until he saw the unreality of that role, quit mediating and began to assert some U.S. ideas...
...tomb became a tourist attraction. John became famous. He used to spend his Sundays at the graveyard, watching folks gawking at his marble likenesses. His relatives quit bothering him. He used up all his money, retired to the Brown County poor farm and lived at public expense. Last week he died, aged 92. Those who attended the funeral said he looked satisfied...
...Allied Trades. That had been back in March 1939. There had been some unpleasantness over a foreman's pay, and the union lads in the bar (there were four of them at the time) had pulled out and set up a picket line. Two of them had quit since then (one to join the British Navy), but the other two, young Con Cusack and Paddo Young, had stuck it out. Every day now for eight years, with other pickets sent by the union, they had tramped up & down, from 10 a.m. to closing, carrying their battered placard: "Strike...
...gang-one was a Hull House kid named Benny Goodman. When Bix left the Wolverines in Manhattan in 1924, they called for Jimmy, whom Bix once called "the greatest white trumpet man in the world." Later, Jimmy joined Ben Pollack's famed dance band. He and Benny Goodman quit when Pollack bawled them out one night for coming to work in dirty shoes. After his wife left him in 1932 Jimmy went off to the Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing...