Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Businessman Griffis prepared to depart, another U.S. businessman quit the Foreign Service. Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...
Beyond the Moon. In 1943, Fred began to get dizzy spells. Diagnosis: hypertension. He got orders to quit radio. While he was resting, he took his third trip to the other side of the moon (Hollywood), made the third of his four pictures (Thanks a Million, Sally, Irene and Mary, Love Thy Neighbor, It's in the Bag), and a few observations: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange"; "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars"; "An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood...
...Billy" Durant came into the world in Boston with not even a loan. Raised in Flint, Mich., he quit school at 17. By selling patent medicine, cigars, insurance and borrowing from friends, he scraped up enough to join a fellow clerk in buying out a carriage factory for $2,000. Through his prodigious energy and salesmanship ("he could coax a bird out of a tree") the company acquired 14 plants by 1904. Durant's "Blue Ribbon" carriages became the Fords of a horse-drawn world...
Recently, while the Mail's burly, quietly competent Editor Stanley Horniblow visited the U.S., Frank Owen had filled in as editor. Last week, hungry for more travel, Horniblow quit (his long-term contract had reportedly been bought up for ?17,000). The day Horniblow left, he and Owen walked out of the office arm in arm to get a drink...
...began adult life as a barrister, quit (to write light verse and opera) after he inherited a small income-and after a female thief he was unsuccessfully defending whipped off one of her boots in court, and aimed it at his head. The law and its devotees became one of his favorite butts-as witness the court usher's song in Trial by Jury...