Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to have been settled by the First Vatican Council of 1870, which declared that the Pope, when he speaks ex cathedra for the church on matters of faith and morals, is infallible. The decree was opposed by more than one-fourth of the assembled bishops-several of them quit the council rather than have to vote on it-but psychologically the decision made a certain amount of sense...
...Five O'Clock Girl, I think it was. In fact the fellow that was in the show had just quit, and I took his place. And then I went with another show called Dance Man, another one Stop, Look and Listen, all these shows were going on all the time, you'd be with one for four or five months, then out of it. You're looking for something better all the time. Eventually--the beginning of the Thirties there--show business fell apart. Barely lingered on until thirty-three, thirty-four; then everything collapsed along with the economy...
...officer in the Burmese police. The experience was decisive. His sketch Shooting an Elephant is a picture in microcosm of two imperial centuries of interracial injustice and violence. Unlike most people, he could take it but he could not dish it out. Back home on leave, he quit to become a writer. This was rougher duty than bashing natives, or the even rougher self-imposed duty of feeling guilty about the bashing. He became a sort of European native-one of the very poor. In a religious age, his eagerness not merely to write for the poor...
...affected; I sense any sound or nuance during the flight." As for Richter, he requires at least five days' rest after a flight to calm down and restore his sense of hearing. Nor are musicians the only ones affected. Former Boston Red Sox Star Jackie Jensen says: "I quit baseball for several reasons, but the main one was fear of flying. It just wasn't worth it." And Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury has refused to fly at all, even when John H. Glenn Jr. offered him a lift in his private...
...year in Maharashtra state in India, demonstrating new types of seed to farmers and helping them to fight rats. In the village he drank unboiled water. Bayne's first clue that something was amiss came in mid-August, when cigarettes "just didn't taste good." He quit smoking. A week later, he was nauseated and running a fever. The Peace Corps got him into Bombay's Breach Candy Hospital, where physicians at first thought that this was going to be a routine case. They reported: "Condition satisfactory. Do not notify family...