Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Fisk Harrah was introduced to the business of betting on the right side of the odds back in the early '30s, when he quit U.C.L.A. to help run his father's bingo parlor in Venice, Calif. By 1937. he had moved to Reno. His operation has been growing ever since, and when he spread out to the shores of Lake Tahoe four years ago, he really began to rake...
...students to Houston to save money. Last summer the board cut the proposed school tax from $1.58 per $100 property assessment to $1.35. Result: the town's twelve schools (9,000 students) temporarily lost accreditation: after their paychecks stopped last month. Aldine's teachers quit their jobs and the schools shut down entirely...
...down his pen and quit taking notes. He heard no more of the lecture, he was too involved in the task of working his rubbers off his feet. He wiggled discreetly in his chair, pushing one heel against the other until, finally, his Cordovans stood naked to the world...
...know who is buying his books. What's more, he doesn't seem to care, as he refuses to write for a particular audience. "I think it would be fatal to do it," he commented. And then he added philosophically, "When I stop pleasing me, I might as well quit...
...followers kept complaining: "When you are not here, we don't do anything." Last month, after his party dutifully won every one of the 100 seats in the Ivory Coast Assembly, Houphouet decided that his influence in Africa would be far greater if he were to quit Paris and become Premier of his country. Last week, as the crowds of Abidjan roared, "Vive! Vive! Vive!", the Assembly installed him in office. The new Premier announced that he would never allow an opposition party that wanted to cut loose from France, and that henceforth the glories of the French African...