Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Place. In Fieldsboro, N.J., Mayor Charles Griffith and three councilmen, two months after election day, suddenly quit, grumbled: "We're not appreciated...
After 30 minutes of hellish panic, the Chimara rolled over, sank at once. Down with her went 200 or more, mostly women & children-and 40 Greek leftist guerrillas chained in her hold (their destination had been an exile camp in the Aegean Islands). Many who had quit the ship died in the sea. Hours later fewer than 200 survivors were accounted for. The dead and missing: more than...
Other coaches grumble about his firehouse brand of basketball. "I know they hate it," says cocky Coach Frank Keaney of Rhode Island State. Long ago he quit concentrating on defense and worked up an exaggerated fast-break style. Says he: "We will give anybody 100 points if we can get 101." Every man on his squad knows that he has to throw rather than dribble, outrun rather than outskill the opposition-and keep running. The fans love...
...headlines broke out on Marshall and Byrnes (see,NATIONAL AFFAIRS), gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In their self-adulation they missed a more exciting item: how a smart reporter had smoked out the season's biggest diplomatic story three days before...
...Then he set out to confirm the tip. Nobody at the State Department would. Late in the afternoon, Reston got to Jimmy Byrnes himself by telephone, asked him point-blank if he was going to quit. Said Byrnes, sidestepping: "How many times do I have to deny this thing?" Reston kept after him: Did he deny the resignation or not? Byrnes didn't exactly deny it, but managed to sound...