Word: quitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undeterred by the fact that industry-particularly breweries, laundries and power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
When students go inter-Housing in the evening, they have most likely forgotten the morning wisdom of their instructors. But at lunchtime, when they have just quit classes, they may remember some small parts of the lectures. They may even want to discuss them. Unless the classmates live in the same house, their aim is frustrated; there is no inter-House at lunch...
...surface, at least, this was a signal honor and there was no practical way to refuse. Saadi quit as senator, was easily elected governor, then settled down to build his personal following in remote Catamarca. Presently he learned that Catamarca was perhaps not quite remote enough. From the capital came private word that President Perón was being urged to oust him on charges of graft and mismanagement...
Antenor No. I. Suzy came by her Antenor circuitously. She quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy for being treated like an old-fashioned Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue...
...that fortuitous moment, Cameron met lissome, brunette Helen Maria Alvarez, 27, who in seven years at Tulsa's radio station KTUL had progressed from secretary to radio-time saleswoman. He soon persuaded Helen Alvarez to quit her job and become president of a new Cameron project-Tulsa's first television station, KOTV...