Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successful on the pro tour for a while, but finally quit when he realized that he was not going to beat Jack Kramer consistently. He tried tennis promotion, beginning with Kramer and Pancho Gonzales and later with Gussie Moran. When Gussie's tour went limp, he secretly slit her famous frilled panties with a razor blade and told her about it when she was on the court. "When you stand in front of the press seats, bend over and that'll start some action." Riggs was furious when Gussie refused...
Billie Jean King was restless. A knee injury had forced her to quit a tournament in New Jersey and spend a week doing therapeutic exercises at her East Coast home in Hilton Head, S.C. "I hate sitting around on my bozzonga," she complained. Then who should intrude on those Friday night blahs a couple of weeks ago but Bobby Riggs, appearing yet again on TV. King listened to a few of his slurs and leaped to her feet, yelling back at the screen: "I'll kill...
...Public Works Minister was to end the month-old strike of 40,000 owner-drivers of the trucks on which the nation's distribution system depends. But in a fishwifely spat with Allende, Ruiz contended that he had not been given the necessary authority, and quit. Allende gave the peacemaking task to an army man, General Hermán Brady, who soon reported that the strike was almost-but not quite-settled...
Only last month Olga Korbut, 18, threatened to quit gymnastics if the International Gymnastic Federation curbed her risky, highly personal style. She won her battle, at least temporarily. Last week she copped five gold medals at the World University Games in Moscow. The crowd went wild with adulation, but there were some off-notes in other events. Russian Jews who cheered Israeli athletes were taunted as "kikes" and roughed up by other Russians, and the American basketball team got caught in a melee started by their Cuban opponents. The spectators, who had been rooting for the Cubans, responded with sportsmanly...
...wind of his illness, ends a spring-training holdout by accepting less money than he is worth-if the owners will agree not to cut Bruce. His efforts to keep Bruce's secret from shrewd Skipper Dutch Schnell (Vincent Gardenia), to get the rest of the club to quit ragging a man they don't know is dying, and to encourage Bruce to play above his half-empty head, form the substance of a funny, gentle and honestly sentimental movie that is easily one of the best of the year in any category, and very possibly the best...