Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris, which has no Sunday-evening papers, did not learn that De Gaulle had quit until an enterprising owner of a mimeographing machine got out a handbill with the news. Parisians fought for it at two francs a copy. Next day, Soir-Express headlined De Gaulle's departure with a touch of skepticism. It said...
...peace with its feet." Last week a nervous U.S. Government heard an impatient scraping of other feet-the G.I.s of a once-great U.S. Army. It had won a war with dashing gallantry but it still had a precarious political front to hold. G.I. Joe wanted to quit-and to hell with winning the peace...
...deep-dyed socialist. He is also a firm friend of the potters who sent him to Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent (he once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-in protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps...
...months the aviation industry has speculated on whether or when the world's biggest airplane would ever fly. Last week speculation turned to skepticism. Reason: Charles W. Perelle, the crack production man who had been hired to complete Howard Hughes' 212-ton, 750-passenger flying boat, quit his job in a huff...
...slightly less exacting department of physical education with a B.S. for thick-skulled athletes, but it never liked the idea. Rice has had only one president in its 34 years, derby-hatted, aloof Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett. Four years ago, at 70, Dr. Lovett said he wanted to quit...