Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Boston University, and himself a violinist, started his son's training. "Sure there was plenty of parental push," Lefkowitz said, chalking his cue. "I guess my basic nature is rather easily impressed. I'm more or less manipulatable. I didn't classically rebel, unlike my sister who quit playing the piano years ago. I guess you could say I'm repressed," and saying this he broke the rack of balls with a shattering crack...
Meanwhile, Richard T. Coleman has quit as the BTU's lawyer in the hearing. Coleman said yesterday he quit "because I wanted to," and with the BTU's concurrence...
...History department should put up or shut up. It should either require its faculty to teach more comparative history or quit expecting expertise from concentrators in such pursuits...
Astoundingly, almost 2 million people actively seeking employment are not eligible for any insurance; they are workers who for one reason or another have been out of the job market for a while. Also barred from benefits are an undetermined number of workers who quit their jobs or were not employed long enough to qualify (the rules vary state by state). Three out of four in this uncovered group are women or young people...
From the stillborn Eagles, Parent found his way to the W.H.A.'s Philadelphia Blazers, signing a fat five-year $750,000 contract. That adventure too ended in disaster when Parent quit the team midway through the 1973 playoffs, claiming he had not been paid. Angry Blazer teammates called him a "hockey Benedict Arnold." "I knew how the guys felt," says Parent, "but there are times in your life when you have to look after yourself." With that, Parent and his wife Carol took off for a cruise. In Martinique, he got a call informing him the Flyers had taken...