Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patel has no personal love of money. With his daughter Maniben, who acts as his secretary (she has accompanied him on most of his sojourns in British prisons), he now lives in a little suite in his son Dahyabhai's Bombay house. He eats little, drinks no alcohol, quit smoking when he first went to jail. In recent years he has had serious stomach trouble. His only exercise is a walk when he rises, at 4:30 a.m. His only recreation is bouncing a ball across the room to his grandchildren. He has never seen a movie. He cares...
Right now, an Argentine syndicate operates the Casino. But one of the two managers, Bernardo Vaistij (of Yugoslav descent), has just been hustled across the border by Chilean cops, who suddenly and conveniently discovered that he was wanted by police in Argentina. The other Argentine manager is expected to quit when the season ends in March. Whispered reason: a new administration has come to power in Chile; the country's biggest casino is too profitable a business for anyone but a deserving government supporter...
Three years ago Ferdinand Henry John ("Fritzie") Zivic decided to have a doctor straighten out his nose. He knew it was time to quit. Said Fritzie: "You know why fighters get started on comebacks . . . they got nuthin' to do so they drop around to the gyms and finally they say to themselves: 'Lookit those bums ... I can lick 'em myself!' So they go and become bums too. Not me ... I've never heard strange noises yet and I'm not going to ... two or three more fights, then it's all over...
Last week Fritzie thought he was still full of fight, but the powerful National Boxing Association didn't. N.B.A. told him flatly that he should really quit-for the good of himself, the fans, and the take. Said an N.B.A. official...
...worries. Said he: "I've never been beaten so that I felt it more than a day or two. . . . My head has never hurt . . . I'm still all there." His dress was sharp, his nose potato-shaped, his ears cauliflowered. And he still intended to quit. Said he: "Maybe one more fight in Mexico City next month, then I'm gonna check...