Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cloherty's beginning in journalism came when his collegiate athletic career turned sour. After winning a football scholarship to the University of Montana, he played for a year, but quit when he learned how his own and his teammates' free rides were funded. The athletic department was supplementing gridiron subsidies with government monies for work-study programs, and Cloherty launched a series in the Montana Kaimin, the campus daily, which ended in scandal, indictments, and two convictions...
...month term for attempted extortion. Prison authorities, hesitant at first, became so enthusiastic about the workshop that they let Dellinger continue it after his parole. He gets some help from such guests as TV Writer-Producer Rod Serling and Joseph Wambaugh, Los Angeles literary policeman (who last week quit the force to write full time). During his visit, Wambaugh offered Bonanno a cop's role on his TV show Police Story. Bonanno said thanks, but no, "I haven't been that rehabilitated...
Armed with these new tricks, I rose to soda-selling respectability by the third homestand. I began to watch the scoreboard to learn when to quit so as to avoid the task of downing 15 leftover sodas. By the All-Star break, I had earned the reputation as number-one coke-man in Veteran's Stadium...
David interjected that Chuck could quit if he wanted to, that he, David, had been strung out and quit. Tom turned to me. "He knows it all, that kid," he said, pointing to David arguing with Chuck up in the front...
...then Chuck broke in and said that he was thinking about going AWOL again and Chris rolled his eyes and said just when they had a conversation going Chuck had to fuck it up again. Chris said that he used to use a lot of dope and that he quit and started getting into shape; he had been practicing karate for seven months now and he had enlisted for Korea, because there was a lot of karate there and did I know if that was true. I said I had heard that too and then he said that he thought...