Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a way to turn the loss of her boss's only client into a financial bonanza--pick a Birdie fan at random for Conrad to kiss on the Ed Sullivan Show after singing his new song, "One Last Kiss." Rosie also wants Albert (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), her boss, to quit songwriting, break away from his protective mother, and become an English teacher. Her dreams all come to pass by the final curtain call...
...Arafat became president of the local Palestinian Students Federation, and served in the Egyptian army during the 1956 war. Later he moved to Kuwait, where he worked in the Ministry of Public Works and operated a profitable contracting company on the side. A co-founder of Al Fatah, he quit his Kuwaiti jobs in 1964 to devote his full-time energies to the cause...
...perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing you must do is quit school...
...circumstances, though, Mike Cherry found himself in a position to try. He began in the middle class, and wound up an ironworker for seven years, going through the ranks and becoming a part of the trade, devoted to it, so that he's still ironworking and will apparently never quit. He became an ironworker, but even that worked against the book in the end. Anyway, he started as a schoolteacher, for nine years. Then something happened...
They carried signs saying "Richard Garwin: Weapons Addict" and "Richard Garwin: Quit Jason...