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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another disturbing implication of the report is that in order to make "a fair and reasonable evaluation" the ACSR will need to collect data for several years before taking any action. Harvard should quit stalling. The evidence the ACSR did succeed in gathering is clear. The blacks who work for these corporations are clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, and are destined to stay there as long as blacks in South Africa are denied basic political and economic rights. Even if the corporations adopted and enforced equitable labor practices, the corporations would still, by their very presence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pen Pals | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Charles H. Dorsey, managing editor of the Sun, wanted Baker back and offered him a column on whatever subject he wanted. Baker accepted and told Reston. Baker says now that he thinks no one had ever quit the Times before. "They weren't used to it," he adds. So Reston persuaded the publisher, Orvil Dryfoos, to counteroffer him a column at the Times. The Sun lost Baker again, this time for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Humor Man | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...angrily bolted from the Cabinet meeting. Opposition leaders demanded that Ehrlich resign, and Begin was forced to postpone the ministerial vote on the plan. Nor was that all. At week's end the mercurial Weizman also rapped Begin's proposed plan for Palestinian autonomy and threatened to quit the Israeli negotiating team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Rising Cost of Peace | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...soon becomes clear that it is not going to be easy. Her sloppy, vicious cab-driving mother (Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood) turns up to excoriate her. A prison guard (Bob Burrus) has quit his job and accompanied Arlene to her Louisville flat, with the lecherous expectation of shacking up with her. He is an odd mixture of paternal solicitude and cruel menace. Her ex-lover and pimp (Leo Burmester) shows up. A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Seared Soul | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...following are the answers to Michelle D. Healy's baseball quiz that appeared in Monday's Crimson. If you answered between 100 and 108 questions correctly, you have wasted your life; 80-100, quit school and do play-by-play; 60-80, do stats for the Red Sox; 40-60, write for Sport magazine; below 40, a gerbil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And You Thought You Knew Baseball | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

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