Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managing editor and spanked him. They especially remember Joe rushing up with one ham-hand raised, a revolutionist's look in his eye, to strike a blow against authority. He met and married bustling Betty Robbins, who was a $15-a-week librarian in the Journal morgue. They quit the paper and Joe went freelancing...
...move into a requisitioned Jewish house, found a laconic note left for him: "My house-your castle." It was a pithy oversimplification of the whole Palestine issue. Last week Britain, unable to work out a division of Palestine's living space between Arabs and Jews, was ready to quit her position as castellan, try to get the United Nations to take over...
...member's self-treatment has twelve well-defined steps. Among other things, he must admit that he cannot take it or leave it; he has got to quit cold. Members are ready, day or night, to answer a desperate call for help from a backsliding member. Secret of the A.A. help: fellow alcoholics do not scold nor misunderstand an alcoholic who wants to quit; they know exactly what hurdles he has to be helped over...
...every Alcoholic Anonymous knows, "twelfth-step work" (helping other alcoholics) is one of the most important single factors in keeping members on the wagon. No cure, the A.A. method is effective only as long as a member keeps it up. An A.A. member is in for life. Those who quit usually go back to the bottle...
Even The Face herself was amazed. After beautiful and shrewd Anita Colby announced last week that she planned to quit as the $500-a-week maid-of-all-work to Moviemaker David Selznick, she got a score of job offers. They came from other producers in Hollywood, four advertising agencies, three cosmetics companies, two model agencies and assorted department stores, book publishers...