Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of this season, the problem of bench strength became acute. Felix Adedeji became injured, Bent Hinze and Dragan Vujovic returned to Europe last year, Jean-Pierre Gilbert of Luxembourg quit after the Penn game, and Crimson head coach Bruce Munro could find very few healthy and talented bodies to fill...
When Roy C. Satchell, 44, quit as president of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. after only six weeks on the job earlier this year, he explained: "I wanted to leave my mark, but the company was just too big, and I couldn't do what I wanted." Satchell, the second nonfamily president that Schlitz has ever had, also said: "When things don't go the way I want, I go." Over the years, he has gone from job to job-at Sinclair Oil, at Schlitz (twice) and at a construction-equipment business that he started. Next month Satchell...
After two months at Hamilton College in 1945, he quit to enlist in the Marines. Memorizing the eye chart in advance, he almost passed the eye test before his glass eye was noticed ("One eye didn't move, and they thought something was fishy"). The glass eye also kept him off the decks and out of the engine room in the merchant marine, so he signed on as a cook...
...himself more as the harbinger of a new committed theology. At times Cox seems to be playing with the image of the Young Marix, echoing him in phrases like, "Theologians have interpreted; the time has come to change." If that is so, then like Marx grown older, he should quit with manifestos and get down to serious writing with its requisites of analysis and disciplined argument...
...Jaworski refuses to request the full files on the plumbers or ducks a test in court, his staffers are almost certain to tell the story to the media, and many of them are also expected to quit-resignations that could seriously compound the crisis of Richard Nixon...