Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids didn't quit," Cleary said. "We fought them right down...
...chose to quit my job as a social worker and stay at home. I am not "forced to sublimate my success drive." I am not especially "sensitive about my stay-at-home status." I am tired of having to explain and defend my position to people whose closed minds can't tolerate change...
...work requires, but above all he wanted to serve the people of his precincts. Even when he discovered that the force was pitted with corruption--that almost the entire plainclothes division raked in protection money from gambling and whorehouses--he refused to let that recognition sink him. He never quit: he took his allegations before a series of Lindsay aides and deputy commissioners and finally broke it to The New York Times. Serpico left the police only after he had already faced the dangers of being a loner on the force and a crusader against the ruling order. He offered...
...Founder Herbert and Heir Apparent Garner Ted may be approaching an end time of their own-at least the end of their tightfisted, monolithic control of their prosperous church.* This week several thousand members of the sect will receive an angry 13-page letter explaining why six ministers have quit the church since last fall. The letter's author: Alfred Carrozzo, 41, once director of ministers for the western half of the U.S. (Carrozzo has already incorporated his own church-the 20th Century Church of God-for those who want "liberation" from the Armstrongs.) One of Carrozzo...
...Catarina Ligendza, scheduled for the first performances, canceled, citing illness. In turn, Tenor Jon Vickers, who is the best Tristan in the world right now, began to have second thoughts about making his Met debut in the role. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf apparently caught the pouts from him and nearly quit as well...