Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment De Nicola quit as Chief Justice in protest at the government's failure to carry out his court's decisions, Italy's Premier Antonio Segni knew full well that he was caught in a squeeze play: unless he purchased De Nicola's return to the court by promising government compliance with its rulings, Premier Segni's Cabinet would stand condemned in the public mind for defiance of constitutional processes. As gracefully as possible, the Premier resigned himself to paying the price-a new set of laws to replace the Fascist statutes thrown...
Died. William Edward Boeing, 74, rich man's son who took up flying for fun, decided after his seaplane cracked up that he could make a better one, made it (1916), prospered on war contracts, later built fighters and mail planes, quit the Boeing Airplane Co. in 1934, returned as an unofficial adviser during World War II, when the firm built the legendary Flying Fortresses (B-178) and Superforts (B-293), later saw Boeing develop the B-52 jet bomber; of a heart attack aboard his yacht; in Puget Sound...
...Project. Esquire could have spared itself its new competition for only $5. From the age of 15, Chicagoan Hefner longed to work for the men's magazine, made the grade in its promotion department after he got out of the University of Illinois. But he quit when Esquire would not lift its $80-a-week offer for a Manhattan assignment to $85. From his own Near North Side apartment, on less than $11,000, almost all of it borrowed, he launched Playboy...
...company's promise to continue them on full pay as long as the crisis lasted, many of them refused to report back for duty. Exhausted and disgusted at the extra work thrust upon them under Egyptian management, those that were still on duty seemed ready to quit at the drop of the company's hat. To keep the roster full Nasser has offered the pilots fantastic salaries, had his emissaries in a score of countries place ads in newspapers, proselyte in person among canal and rivermen...
Strangely, when he switched to a jockey's saddle Johnny found the going tougher. In his first year (1927) he won one out of 16 starts, earned all of $980. As it always is, advice was available from every quarter, and it all added up to one word: quit. But Johnny stuck around. When other jocks were living it up, he worked around the barns, walked hots, rode as an exercise boy. He learned about horses and, inevitably, he began...