Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four original members of the Eisenhower Cabinet have prevailed on Ike to accept their resignations some time during the spring or summer. Each of the four had wanted to quit at the end of the first Eisenhower Administration, had agreed to stay on to help get the second term on the road-and until a suitable replacement was found. The departing...
Lion Follows Christian. Twenty One has built its week-to-week suspense on whether Van Doren will keep plunging or quit while he is so far ahead. By now, he risks little to keep going. It would take eleven tie games followed by a 21-0 defeat to wipe out his winnings. His income-tax bracket is so high that if he were defeated in a game that cost him, say, $20,000, he would actually be out of pocket only $2,200 (see chart). Of the $122,000 he has won, income taxes will let the unmarried...
Although not widely read, the country doctor had a consuming curiosity and a determination that his sons should have every opportunity for education. When Mark, the fourth-born, was six, Dr. Van Doren quit his practice at Hope, Ill., packed off his brood to Urbana 25 miles away so the boys could study in good elementary schools and be handy to the University of Illinois. "Everything interested him," says Mark of his father. "Nothing was unimportant. He had no patience with error. Since this TV business started, I got a letter from a distant cousin who said he closed...
Esso similarly quit when the government turned over the entire valley to E.N.I...
...powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing doing. After quite a few reels of furtive finger-wiggling, the hired Hiawathas simply quit the kidding, and one of them, with every line of his body expressing his profound relief, declares...