Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attlee had acted under pressure. A month ago Burma's youthful (31) nationalist leader, Aung San, had presented the British with a demand to quit Burma by Jan. 31, 1947. If the deadline were not met, Aung San had threatened, it would be time for "extralegal methods." Aung San, whose Anti-Fascist People's Freedom . League is expected to sweep the elections, will undoubtedly head the delegation to London...
...they left Canada's width and plenty? There were almost as many reasons as there were returning brides, but atop the list were 1) too few houses, and 2) too many in-laws. Mrs. Margaret Bann, 26, tried three months in Saskatchewan, quit it and her husband because "the home he said was waiting for me turned out to be a one-room shack." Some complained of drinking or faithless husbands, and of in-laws who did not like children...
...anemia is to reduce the number of churches. It seems to him that there are not too many churches but too few ministers. Says he: "I've never seen an area where the church was closed and the whole congregation goes elsewhere. A lot of the people just quit going to church...
...chambers, when somebody came along with a consolation prize. How would he like to start a college in Alaska and become its president? Pennsylvania-born, Bucknell-educated Charles Ernest Bunnell thought he might, on one condition: whenever he decided that the college could get along without him, he would quit and return...
...first day, one Spanish, one Portuguese, one Brazilian and seven U.S. boats quit because of broken rudders, sprung masts, bad weather. On the third day, in rough weather, George Fleitz, 32, of Los Angeles, in his Wench II, set a world record for the 10-mile round-the-buoys course. Time: 1:37:33. His Wench II piled up so many points on the record day that Owner Fleitz marched off with the three-foot silver trophy, after a ceremonious ducking in the refuse-filled Almendares River...