Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter F. White, Harvard-accented, quietly aggressive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was about to slow down at his doctor's request. Soon after he comes back from the Paris U.N. meeting (some time in November) he will quit work for a year's vacation...
...mother gave him a 51? racket for Christmas. School never interested him much ("If it was a warm day and the fellows said 'Let's go to the beach,' who was I to say no?"). Though Perry Jones, the Southern California tennis czar, looked askance, he quit high school in 1943 and then did a hitch in the Navy. He finally played his way back into Jones's good graces-and the tournament bids, expense money and coaching that go with them...
First of all, the entire Freshman backfield is gone. Carl Bottenfield, injured in the Dartmouth game last season, has quit football on the advice of his Tulsa physician; fullback John West and halfback John White are scholastically ineligible to play this term; and Jim Lowell has decided to devote full attention to his studies...
First of all, the entire Freshman backfield is gone. Carl Bottenfield, injured in the Dartmouth game last season, has quit football on the advice of his Tulsa physician; fullback John West and half-back John White are scholastically ineligible to play this term; and Jim Lowell has decided to devote full attention to his studies...
...Steinberg Tradition. Ana studied medicine at Bucharest University and later in Zurich. There she met and married Marcel Pauker, a short, mustachioed Rumanian student of a good bourgeois family. In the Steinberg tradition, she gave him pamphlets to read and converted him to Marxism. Ana quit medicine, devoted herself entirely to healing mankind in other ways...