Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poems which nobody understood. He lived by stealing. After the German invasion, François' father, who had turned collaborationist in order to save his business, persuaded his son to write for a Nazi publishing enterprise at 10,000 francs a month. After eight months, François quit...
...finger on a few things in this debate." There was also a good deal of approval for Churchill's remarks in the British press. It was noteworthy that no hurrahs at all were forthcoming from the Zionists; their silence contradicted vociferous but unofficial demands that Britain "quit Palestine." They know that if Britain got out of Palestine the Arabs would be on Zion's neck...
...Williams, sneered that he "will no more enforce the laws than he will climb to the top of a flagpole to eat his lunch." Next day the Republican Statesman used an entire editorial column to bail out the Democratic governor and bawl out its free-swinging columnist. Vardis Fisher quit in a huff, looked for another soapbox. Last week, readers who really missed him had to buy a tiny upstart weekly called Statewide (circ. 5,000). Fisher and his new editor were getting along fine...
...bill came to him as the Senate had approved it. Said Harry Truman: It is in terrible shape; it couldn't be worse. Said the Senate's Republican strategist Robert A. Taft: "If it is vetoed again, Congress will pass a resolution extending rent controls and quit...
After 21 years as associate editor, Davenport moved into the corner office on the 13th floor of 250 Park Avenue. Said he: "I don't know anything about the job- but in a week or so I may." He had been "broadly uneducated" at several schools before he quit the University of Pennsylvania as a sophomore. ("The magazines had bought a few of my stories and it completely ruined me.") As an infantryman in World War I he went from private to captain, was badly wounded...