Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the first competitive events he will miss due to having quit are the IC4A's next week, and then the Nationals next month...
...disappointed Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace quit the Harvard track team yesterday after the squad elected pole vaulter Blayne Heckel and weight man Steve Niemi as 1974-75 captains...
Vanderpool-Wallace said that he had all of the criteria for leadership and added that he would not have quit if just one captain had been named...
...children, Troy, 40 (whose real first name is Forrest), grew up in the poor, populist-leaning "Little Dixie" section of southeastern Oklahoma. He dropped out of college to become a newsman. After 17 years of experience, including two stints as the Tulsa Tribune's Washington bureau chief, Troy quit in 1970 and bought the Observer from a priest, who had earlier taken it over from its founder, the Oklahoma City Roman Catholic diocese. Troy readily paid the asking price of $1 for the money-losing enterprise...
...quit school to sign on as a cub reporter with a Bristol paper. Starting on the police beat, he was eventually reviewing films and plays. In retrospect, he says, "I didn't really enjoy it. I felt I was a critic by instinct, not by credentials. I kept thinking I only put into print what other people were saying in the bar during intermission." Nonetheless, he made amusing use of the experience later when he wrote The Real Inspector Hound (TIME, May 8, 1972), a caustic spoof of two rather addlepated drama critics flexing their cliches on an Agatha...