Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 16 years in Los Angeles, short, sharp-eyed Benny the Meatball grew chubby and genial and almost quit carrying a rod. Los Angeles was paradise for a wrong gee with the right connections. The sun was warm, suckers in dark glasses stood under every palm tree, and the cops obligingly kept Eastern hoods out of town...
...Faith. Last week, still on "temporary" tenure after 55 years of service, Dr. Studer decided to quit before the job became permanent. He stepped down with confidence that the Y's work was good. Said he: "We do more vital religious work today than ever before. We work more with the individual. We strive to create a Christian atmosphere. . . . We try to solve the individual's problems both from a realistic and religious standpoint. We try to make him realize that there is a God in the universe and that He is our Father...
...Vancouver, where 150 vets had moved into the old Vancouver Hotel last January, 13 squatter families were in their second week at Little Mountain Army barracks. They petitioned Ottawa "to quit quack-quack-quacking on housing . . . start building decent low-cost housing...
Last week Minisi told why he quit Annapolis: "I wasn't going to follow a Navy career. I don't think it would have been right to get my college education at the Government's expense." Mississippi State Coach Allyn McKeen had an equally ingratiating explanation of McWilliams' decision to leave West Point: "He found it unpleasant there. He didn't like the discipline...
Said he: "The solution is, refuse to get mad, refuse to quit, and hope that the people on the other [Presbyterian] side will do the same...