Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becoming a housewife. Luckily I began at a time when the market for illustrations was at its peak. By 1908 six of my cover designs had appeared on The Saturday Evening Post, but since I was paid only $60 each-a fraction of what the male artists received-I quit. When the market folded, due to the Depression, I switched to writing. My many books have sold well and long. Experience has led to this conclusion: Women who want to marry, should; they may have to have a job too, for money...
...strong and dominant, and I liked that. But as the kids grew older and moved out, I got bored and depressed with Bill. He worked six days a week and brought home a briefcase every night. I kept talking about going back to school until finally Bill said, 'Quit talking about it and do it.' A little later on when the university offered me a job he said, 'Go ahead-but I want my socks washed.' Six months later he died of a heart attack...
...also mastered blueprint reading and mathematics, but when she applied for a job with an aluminum company in Newnan, she was greeted with the predictable, "Are you serious?" She talked her way into a job, for which she had to commute 110 miles a day. That forced her to quit after a year, but she remembers with pride, "When I left, the company vice president said I was probably the best aluminum welder he had ever employed...
...Terry didn't quit, and in a kind of Horatio Alger sports story (or is it Chip Hilton?), he went on to become one of the lynchpins of the fencing team's new success. He was also elected next year's captain on Monday, by a unanimous vote of his teammates...
Back in December, with a new coach and a flock of freshman prospects, I was cautiously optimistic - to use a well-worn phrase - about the approaching season. Several swimmers from last year had already quit or were in the process of dropping off the team, and I knew little about the freshman except that highly-regarded new coach Don Gambril was counting on them to form the nucleus of his squad...