Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Career: Built a prosperous law practice in Liverpool, specializing in insurance; at 32 became chairman of local town council, imposed air-raid precautions long before most Britons admitted possibility of war. Three months before war began, quit law practice to join territorial army; rose rapidly to colonel on staff of British Second Army, where he served as observer at Sicily landings, helped plan Normandy, where he landed on D-day-plus-one. Brigadier at war's end, he emerged with the O.B.E. for services in invasion planning...
...reason she would take a deep breath and then, as she thought, "stop breathing"; actually, she took shallow breaths on top of what she was holding, finally let all the air out with a giant sigh. Afraid of suffocating, she had spent years going from doctor to doctor, finally quit her work. Last October, a neurologist decided that her trouble was emotional, referred her to Montreal's famed Allan Institute...
MISSILE BLOWUP between scientists and aeronautical engineers at Lockheed has brought the resignation of Physicist Dr. Ernst H. Krause, missiles research laboratories director, and a score of other top scientists. Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. Quesada quit as vice president for missiles six weeks ago. To replace Krause, Lockheed promoted topflight Physicist Louis Ridenour, promised to keep its $32 million missile program going without interruption...
This week, under heavy fire from commercial airlines tacitly backed by the Air Force, CAAdministrator Lee sent his resignation to the White House and quit after nearly ten years with CAA; into his job stepped CAA's deputy chief, Charles J. Lowen...
...board in New York, presidents of the major movie companies upheld the Hollywood Production Code Administration and refused to give United Artists a code seal for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm because the movie deals with the taboo subject of dope addiction. U.A. promptly quit the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the code, went ahead with plans to release the movie, starring Frank Sinatra, in Manhattan this week, had high hopes that, like Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, also released without a code seal, it will make a killing...