Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protected market and permitted him to sell in a free market with all the world as his competitor." Observes Webb: "Thus the Republican Party successively turned its back on one great segment of society after another, on the farmer, on small business, on labor. The party quit the people long before the people quit...
Nobody shot at Frank Costello, and he fired no shots himself; he had long since quit packing a gun. He was a big shot from the start-a fixer, conniver, ship operator and financier-who did his work in an office at 405 Lexington Avenue, made business trips to Montreal to buy liquor from Canadian and European exporters, took enormous risks and made enormous profits. He also kept himself so shadowy and unobtrusive a figure that when U.S. Attorney Emory Buckner made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to smash the liquor racket, Costello was erroneously charged with being an accomplice...
Last Day. An hour before the deadline Chanis still insisted that he would never quit, and called on his little guard to defend him. But by then the situation was hopeless, and the foreign diplomatic corps intervened to avert bloodshed. Just before 2 o'clock a committee of ten diplomats, including U.S. Ambassador Monnett B. Davis, arrived at the police station to ask for a ten-minute extension. They telephoned the palace, where Chanis was now ready to compromise: he would resign if Remón would...
...Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell me, but I know one thing. I'll never leave Brooklyn. If I was sold . . . I'd quit." He might quit anyhow, he thought, after one more season. It was also a big week for Jackie Robinson Jr., who celebrated his third birthday with his parents and neighborhood friends...
Last week, in a Manhattan hospital, death came to Bishop Manning at 83. For his final sermon as Bishop of New York, he had chosen a text (I Corinthians, 16:13) that might well be his epitaph: "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong...