Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diamond jubilee was a jubilee indeed (in a restrained, Fabian way). Sir Thomas Beecham, who quit the Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert...
...changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling to recognize the vital international issues at stake. With 30% to 60% of a job done, he would quit...
That touched off trouble in the Citizens' Housing Committee, a civic house-finding group of which Hanratty was a member. Father John MacDonald, director of the Catholic Family Service, quit the committee, said he would stay out until Hanratty "throws the Communists out of his Veterans' League." Committee Chairman C. E. Pickering added his own ultimatum to Hanratty: clean house or quit. Hanratty said he would not force resignation of two Communist officials in his league, bristled: "If they want to get me out, they'll have to pick me up and toss...
...earned a million dollars at 30. Unlike most jockeys, he has hung on to a lot of it. In his 14 years of racing, he has once been ruled off all tracks for a year for rough riding. This summer he decided to take life easier. He quit as contract rider for the famed Greentree Stable, now sleeps until 9 a.m. instead of rolling out at dawn to gallop horses. His only flaw as a jockey: he sometimes tries to ride cheap horses as if they were stakes horses, confidently holding them back for a spurt that...
Ghosts. In Pittsburgh, a University of Pittsburgh student, handling registrations, complained: "Yesterday I registered a guy named Himmler. Today it was Goehring... if Hitler comes ... I quit...