Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellows didn't quit. They kept hustling, something that's hard to do in a game like today. We've finished the toughest part of our schedule now. We'll get on the winning side of the board yet, I guarantee it," Munro promised...
...school arid in 1935 joined the staff of New York City's special prosecutor Thomas Dewey in an antimob crusade that resulted in the conviction of racketeer "Lucky" Luciano. When Dewey became D.A. of New York County, Hogan stayed on as his assistant, stepping up when Dewey quit in 1941. Though modest and low-keyed in public, Hogan brought to trial an impressive gallery of offenders including basketball fixers, TV quiz-show cheats and many corrupt public officials. He resigned last December because of poor health. Only the month before, he had been re-elected to an unprecedented ninth...
...weigh the benefits of the automobile against traffic deaths. There is nothing good about smoking. It relieves tension, but it also causes it. It keeps some smokers from getting fat, but it robs them of good health in the process. If, after considering this, smokers do not want to quit, that is a matter of personal choice. The decision to smoke in public is not. This all seems very obvious, but smokers still falsely equate their right to smoke with the non-smokers's right to breathe clean air. They do not realize that when anyone smokes, everyone smokes...
This is just one more measure of how much things have changed since the Strike.CrimsonDiana HenryAn angered HENRY ROSOVSKY quit the Faculty Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies after the Faculty allowed students a vote on faculty appointments...
Kalal was co-captain of the W&L track team, but he quit, more for philosophical reasons than for anything else. He said simply that he is involved with running, not winning. Burns, an intense red-headed sophomore, has stayed on the track team, although he says he has had some misgivings. His reasons for running in the Boston Marathon are different from Kala...