Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles. Some nine minutes later in regimented single file, with Champion Zaitseva in the lead, all seven crossed the finish line, 50 yards ahead of the first Frenchwoman. Six other French girls had quit cold in the first 1,000 meters. "The Russians were too formidable," said one. "Anyway it was too wet and I wanted to get home...
...shows. Radio stations expanded their newscasts, but it was slim fare. Springfield still had not learned, by paper or radio, that one of the last links with journalistic greatness was gone. Famed Republican Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook, who supported many a cause that the boss did not like, had quit...
...retreat from tomboyishness began when she married cauliflower-eared George Zaharias, a 300-lb. wrestler. The bride gave up baseball (she could throw farther than most big-league outfielders) and winning track meets singlehanded. The bridegroom, shortly after the honeymoon, quit being, a wrestler...
McCloy knew why Washington Publisher Eugene Meyer had quit as the Bank's president last December and why two other men had subsequently turned down the job (TIME, Dec. 16, et seq.) Under the rules, the Bank's president could be held responsible if the Bank's loans went bad. But the Bretton Woods charter did not give him nearly enough power to go with his heavy responsibilities. He took all his orders from the Bank's twelve full-time executive directors, one from each of twelve member nations...
...spare time Dee Givens made a few Dri-ettes by hand and sold them to two department stores. Harassed mothers grabbed them up so fast that Dee saw a future in the business of making babies socially more presentable. She quit nursing in 1936, borrowed $100 from the La Grange State Trust & Savings Bank and set herself up in business with two helpers in a tiny Western Springs store. Shortly after, the bank executive who had lent her the money became the father of twins. The Dri-ettes made such a hit with him that he backed her with other...