Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since 1948, decided to out-apartheid the Nationalists in the next elections. They rammed through the party's convention at Bloemfontein fortnight ago a resolution against the Bantustan program-on the ground that it would reduce the size of white South Africa. Outraged, eleven liberal members of Parliament quit the United Party and announced that they would form their own Progressive Party...
...leader of the heavily favored Alliance Party, Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, 56, quit his job as Prime Minister four months ago to barnstorm throughout all eleven states of the federation by motorboat and car. Cambridge-educated and a descendant of ancient Mongol conquerors of Malaya, he plumped for more education and economic development, said, "I was truly astounded by the ignorance in some places." Before upcountry pagodas and in front of east coast mosques, he greeted crowds by crying Merdeka (freedom) and arguing commonsensically that "there is too much talk about differences of race, religion and class rather than about...
From the Colombo Plan (British-and Commonwealth-backed, though Burma as a matter of fact has quit the Commonwealth...
...life. This is the year that fans scanning box scores and studying statistics are suddenly realizing that grand old names are nearly all gone, have gradually been replaced by a whole set of new faces. This is the year Ted Williams (.239) is 40, and seems ready to quit. This is the year Stan Musial (.260) is 38, and riding the bench. A new generation of stars is coming of age. Significantly...
Yankee Error. By the time he was 16, Rocky was a star for the semipro Mohawks playing out of Crotona Park, and major-league scouts were nosing about. Rocky quit high school ("baseball was the only thing I really cared about") and waited to be courted. Yankee Stadium was just a couple of miles away, and Colavito idolized Joe DiMaggio. But the Yankee scouts fretted so long about his slow running (he has inverted arches) that Cleveland got him for a cut-rate $3,000 bonus...