Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only last summer, when revolt blazed in Beirut and Baghdad, most of the prophets on the scene forecast that the racing fires of Arab nationalism must shortly fuse the Arab East into one great state. Realists urged the West to quit backing losing friends and to get right with the winners. They pointed to the miserable conditions in the lands ruled by Western allies, but had less to say about the unchanging misery in the lands of the winners. Nasser himself seemed almost plausible when he shouted that scheming colonialists had split the Middle East to rule it, drawing their...
...Philadelphia businessman, now 63, bothered by some kind of rheumatism back in 1918, took a radium tonic then for about two months, quit when it gave no relief. Later, under X rays because his joints still creaked, his bones showed puzzling deposits. At M.I.T., Dr. Evans and colleagues found that he still had 25 times the calculated safe dose of radium in him, figured that he had originally consumed 1,000 times the safe dose...
...outrage at the UAC's "dictatorial methods," they rejected the proposal that four of them stay on (and these four could be alternated from game to game). If any of them were to be forced out of their jobs, the whole squad would quit in a body. The Council promptly lined up four more athlete cheerleaders to take part in the Princeton game, and the disgruntled incumbents' show at the Penn game was their last...
...come to stand up and be counted. Paratroop General Jacques Massu, the figurehead co-president of the Algiers Public Safety Committee, promptly if grumpily strode into a committee meeting, accompanied by subordinates in white uniforms, to announce: "Gentlemen, in execution of the order of the chief of government, we quit." Undeterred, the civilian members of the committee called for a general strike against De Gaulle's directive...
...They were the most exciting years of my life. I never considered a car as an instrument to achieve an end, but as part of myself or better. I was a part of the car, like a piston or shifting gear. At Reims in 1948, when I had to quit because my gas tank was ripped, I felt as if my own flesh were wounded. This feeling of oneness with a car, and that I had luck in getting the best cars I could drive, made me a champion far more than snappy shifting, lightness of touch on the steering...