Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novelist who won the Prix Interallié in 1959 and now writes a regular column of slangy, pun-filled and often sarcastic observations. Reporters must scrape along on salaries of $300 to $350 a month, and even top editors earn only $800 to $1,000; yet many of them quit higher-paying jobs on other papers to join L'Équipe. Why? "Because," explains Grand Prix Racing Reporter Johnny Rives, "I do the kind of reporting and writing I love to do. My articles get published pretty much as I write them, without being...
...Zoologist Charles J. Flora, 37, of Western Washington State College, who looks on traveling to conferences as at best an unavoidable bore and at worst a deadly ritual. "You get to the point, so enervated with endless waiting and the cramped discomfort of jet flight," says Flora, "that you quit making passes at the stewardesses...
...week, 278 of Kansas City's firemen last month got around state laws by playing sick for four days; in so doing they defied a court injunction and created a wrangle so bitter that National Guardsmen were sent to guard firehouses. In Atlanta, 500 of 726 firemen quit their own union, the International Association of Fire Fighters, which bars strikes, then walked out for 21 days despite a court back-to-work order...
...debt to buy an abandoned 67-acre farm in Washington County, Va., an area known for antique shops and country hams, hurley tobacco and beef cattle, spoon bread and purple, mist-hung hills. Five years later, at the age of 39, he decided "it was now or never." He quit U.P.I., moved his wife and three children to the farm, and took a job writing editorials for the Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier, the nearest daily paper. A few months later, he learned that some stock was for sale in the Washington County News, the county's leading weekly (circ...
...Harvard Dramatic Club Summer Players, who three weeks ago were saying that they might quit Cambridge after producing their first show, now plan to return for a second summer. What's more, the Summer School may subsidize their future productions...