Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't age: Herbert Orrin Crisler is only 49. But he had coached Wolverine football for ten years, and it looked like a good time to quit. He would stay on as Michigan's athletic director, and he had picked his successor: Benjamin G. (Bennie) Oosterbaan, 47, a Michigan football immortal, three-time All-America end. A native Michigander, hulking, jocular Oosterbaan has been on Michigan's coaching staff ever since he graduated...
Yale had to go farther afield for a football coach to replace Howie Odell, who quit for more money at the University of Washington. The Eli choice: able, 300-lb. Herman Hickman, 36, the man behind the Army lines. As Earl Blaik's assistant, Tennessee-born Hickman was as proud as a lion tamer of his viciously charging cadet lines (he called them affectionately "Mah Rowdies...
...home (domestic) news editor. At war's end, when "I saw the way things were shaping up in Eastern Europe," he had his first doubts about Communism. "It kept bothering me more & more." Last week, appalled by the fall of Czechoslovakia, and the prospects it opened up, he quit his party and his paper, to become a Roman Catholic...
...hadn't he quit sooner? "Well," he said wanly, "I guess it was because I was home news editor and not foreign editor...
...Sunday morning Ledger-Enquirer spread the story across its front page. At the gathering, the three newsmen had spotted not only Dr. Green but the Ledger's country circulation manager, Hollis Cooper, who hurriedly quit his job. Dr. Green admitted that he was at the meeting. But, he said virtuously, the attack on the newsmen was all news...