Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill 'disappointingly weak' by crippling that provision which would ensure equal voting rights for all Americans . . . And then, before the House had a chance to make any move to put strength back in the bill, a substantial body of onetime civil rights supporters backed down and quit. They gave as a reason: 'Something is better than nothing.' All I can say to them is this: this isn't the philosophy that made our country what it is today...
...only self-employed racket stringer in Harlem), bought Althea a pair of secondhand rackets, and put her to work practicing against the wall of a handball court. A few weeks later he took her uptown to some public courts, and her performance was phenomenal. The other players quit their games to watch. In her first time on a tennis court, Althea learned the pleasure of playing to a gallery...
...midsummer, Althea was taking lessons from Fred Johnson, a one-armed pro at the now defunct biracial Cosmopolitan tennis club. Her game, which had been an exercise in sheer power, began to show signs of sophistication. Now all her life was focused on tennis. She quit school and went to work. She was a counter girl in a Chock Full o' Nuts shop in lower Manhattan, a chicken cleaner on Long Island ("I used to have to take out the guts and everything, but I still like chicken"), an elevator operator in the midtown Dixie Hotel, a packer...
...Jefferson City, Mo. She coached the men's tennis team but had little chance to play. She was bored and restless, and in one year her ranking fell so far that she was no longer listed among the country's top ten players. Althea was ready to quit. She all but decided to join the WAC and use a lieutenant's salary to help her family...
...Four or five times a week, Dr. Eaton practiced tennis with her. "I tried to show Althea how to be a lady on the court," he says, "but she was still unable to accept defeat with grace. If I ran up a 4-1 lead, she'd just quit. Anyone who could get' a lead on her could beat...