Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apprentice Elliott was once strongly tempted to quit when a mulatto screamed and kicked while being strapped into the chair. But such goings-on, he found, were rare. A few doomed men balked momentarily at the door of the death chamber, but subsided quickly. Two men shut their eyes through it all. A few acted as though in a trance (he denies that they are ever doped). But the commonest reaction was bravado. Said wisecracking Gangster George Appel: "Well, folks, you'll soon see a baked Appel." Gangster Michael Sclafoni ran his hand over the chair arm. "Dust...
...Finns have something they call sisu. It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win. The Finns translate sisu as "the Finnish spirit," but it is a much more gutful word than that...
Last week Chicago quit intercollegiate football, asked to be released from games scheduled for 1940 and 1941. Said the Board of Trustees: "The university believes in athletics and in a comprehensive program of physical education for all students. It believes its particular interests and conditions are such that its students now derive no special benefit from intercollegiate football. . . . The university will continue to promote intramural sports and will encourage all students to participate in them. . . . The university trusts that its withdrawal from intercollegiate football will not require termination of its long and satisfactory relationship with other members of the intercollegiate...