Word: quit
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...team members, 36 are 18 or older. Hogshead was on the 1980 Olympic team, then slogged through the emotional swamp caused by the U.S. boycott. The next year, worn by a practice routine that had her up at 4:45 every morning from seventh grade through high school, she quit swimming, "I could eat cookies for lunch," she recalled last week. But after a year and a half in dry dock, she returned. "I hadn't finished my career the way I wanted to," she said. She had been a butterfly and individual-medley specialist, but she turned herself...
...Charles de Gaulle the Free French intelligence service, which, among other things, procured German plans for the coastal defenses in Normandy and helped make possible the selection of the Allies' D-day landing sites; of a heart attack; in Guingamp, France. After the war Renault joined, then quit, De Gaulle's political organization, and recounted his adventures in several colorful and popular memoirs...
...Because we can't afford it? He said no. Because you're colored; they won't let you in. So I walked off in a kind of mystic mood, dejected but not dejected. My old man looked at me and asked: Well, what you going to do? You gonna quit? Just look around and find something else...
...Marine with a boyish face and the beginning of a paunch, Zaccaro quit Fordham Law School before gaining a degree to enter his father's successful real estate business, Paul Zaccaro Co., Inc. Acting on behalf of a wealthy client, the company tried to purchase the Empire State Building in New York City during the 1950s. That bid failed, and the since concentrated on lucrative commercial properties in Lower Manhattan, including Greenwich Village. "I still have to work for a living," says Zaccaro. "My life has been the real estate business. I've always loved it. The thrill...
Executive changes have also roiled the company. Two months ago Chairman Donald Lloyd-Jones quit over differences with directors. He was replaced by Ven ture Capitalist J.R.K. Tinkle, who last week presided over the all-night executive session that grounded the carrier...