Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to implement his brave new words lay embarrassingly close at hand. This week Iran asked the U.S. to protest Russia's action there. Russia's refusal to quit Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS) could well be interpreted as: 1) the "unilateral gnawing away of the status quo"; 2) aggression by "coercion or pressure"; 3) an entering wedge "for further and undisclosed penetration of power"; or even 4) "a war of nerves to achieve strategic ends...
...Chinese tension was mounting over revelation of the Yalta deal, in which the U.S. and Britain had highhandedly agreed to give Russia concessions in the territory of their ally (see INTERNATIONAL). Chinese indignation was heightened by the continued failure of Soviet troops to honor their pledge and quit Manchuria. Seven high Government officials had signed a petition denouncing the Yalta pact as a "dark stain" on U.S. and British relations with China...
...marched in with her spaniel Shadow, no dog had ever crossed the decorous threshold of Cornell's Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Within a week dogs were almost as common there as professors. Each spring she was the first to brave Cayuga's icy waters, the last to quit swimming in the lake in the fall. She sometimes gave dinners for 30 people which, without help, she cooked am served herself...
...money in one-tenth the time. Anyway, he was tired of being chased out on all sorts of assignments by "them stupid bastards on the city desk." Said he: "I should be shooting eight-foot hollyhocks." So he walked into Managing Editor Ed Stone's office and quit. P-I staffers threw a party for him, and the management gave him a wrist watch. Even "them stupid bastards" were sorry...
Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 52 years ago, MacKenzie quit his studies at Dalhousie University to go overseas, won a Military Medal and Bar. Back at college, he took 39 courses to the average student's 20, worked his way through by digging postholes, taking census, parking cars. Then he took postgraduate courses in law at Harvard and Cambridge. For four years he worked on a Saskatchewan farm. He has long been one of Canada's top men in international affairs, was called by the Government in 1943 to head the Wartime Information Board...