Word: quite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huntington, W. Va., Marlin Mitton quit the federal Internal Revenue Service after a bootlegger he was trying to arrest bit him on the end of the nose...
...telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
Going Through Channels. Once again a royal family council had to be called. Princes warned Feisal that, if he quit, the younger brothers might depose or kill the King, and told King Saud that civil war and bankruptcy might ruin the land if Feisal stepped down. By last week, after hours of debate, the council had patched together a compromise: the King approved Feisal's budget and Feisal assumed responsibility for the King's debts; Editor al Jasir was freed from jail, and the King conceded the importance of going through channels. Thus Saudi Arabia, still very much...
...Though majorities of physicians polled in several states have voted in favor of bringing doctors under compulsory social security coverage, the House of Delegates voted down a Pennsylvania resolution favoring it. Main argument: doctors who kept on practicing after the age of 65 could not collect benefits until they quit, or until 72; doctors should be able to make better personal plans for retirement...
...Karachi two shipments of gold. Kassim also incriminated associates of former President Iskander Mirza and ex-Prime Ministers Noon and Suhrawardy, as well as 18 top Karachi police and customs officials. No matter which politicians were in power, he said, their henchmen demanded payoffs, and when he tried to quit the rackets they would not let him. "I did not give up smuggling," he pleaded, "because it was conducted at the point of a pistol-which continued to stay in my back even though the fingers holding the trigger changed." Outside court, the military regime of General Ayub Khan last...