Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though much had been done, there was much more still to do. But last week Baruch quit the team, turned in his suit and took his best men with him. He told Harry Truman that his task was fulfilled. From here on, he thought, it would be better for the U.S. to be represented by the same delegate on both the Security Council and the Atomic Energy Commission. That man would be Vermont's earnest ex-Senator Warren Austin...
...world. They very nearly reached that peak today." Ted Schroeder was now free to go back to Glendale, Calif, to sell refrigerators, a job he stuck to most of last summer when other U.S. tennis stars were playing tournaments. Said he: "A fellow's got to quit this tennis sometime and get down to business...
Julia Lee has left Kansas City only a couple of times, once for the recent Hollywood recording date, and once when she sang for three weeks with one-armed Trumpeter Wingy Mannone in Chicago. She got homesick for Kansas City and quit. Says she: "If you're not happy, there's no percentage in the big money...
...McCall's sell Burton's stockpile of popular fiction to their bigger rivals, Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. He wanted to start from scratch with new, "realistic" writers. For such heresies he was fired at least six times during the first year (he quit nearly as often), was always rehired after a few days or weeks because, he says, "there was no one else around the place with ideas...
...that it was not "work" for men to stand in line to punch the time clock, walk to their benches, don overalls, grease their arms, sharpen tools. Even if they started work before the whistle blew, the master argued, it should not count, because sometimes they loafed afterward or quit early...