Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over at Soldiers Field every afternoon listening to a new coach explain a new system. And as the days became lazier, they put on pads and helmets and put into practice a strange system of football. At times they wished that they had never come out. A half dozen quit. Yet in the end, they slowly became aware that they were learning to move the ball. Spring practice was over, and soon after, they were off to Summer jobs...
...career officer, Odria had risen to colonel when President Bustamante made him brigadier and chief of staff in 1946. The following year, when Bustamante tried governing with an all-military cabinet, Odria held his first public office as Minister of Government (Interior). He quit the cabinet when Bustamante last summer brusquely rejected his demand for immediate outlawing of the Apristas...
...world handled by a small hand of cow-punchers. They cope with their world not be shooting pistols in the air against a tastefully setting sun; they are more genuine than that. They stand guard in the rain; they gripe about their food; they get tried and try to quit. Not once do they leer at some dance-hall floozy in a clap-board Honky-tonk. "Red River" avoids this sort of bunkum and gives a convincing picture of a cowboy's existence, laced as it is with dust-clogged nostrils and empty stomachs...
...contrary to schoolbook accounts, that George didn't survey the Lord Fairfax estates at 16. He went along for the ride with young George William Fairfax (whose wife, Sally, he later fell in love with). Washington helped out but actually the two youngsters got tired of it and quit before the job was over...
...three Holy Cross scores followed long downfield marches, one in the first half and two more in the second. During a first quarter marge, Dusty Burke, Crimson defensive quarterback, was hurt and had to quit the game with a sprained knee...