Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Injuries and lack of hockey interest have hurt the Tiger squad this winter. Mark Stuckey, the top scorer with 14 points, has missed the last three games because of an eye injury sustained in practice, and goalie Ed Swift is out with a sore knee. Defenseman Stan Hutton recently quit the team after being benched for a game...
...Crimson came out of the dressing room running for the second half and never quit. The Crusaders scored bucket for bucket for a few minutes but could not keep the pace and Harvard went ahead to stay at 4:00 of the half...
That may sound like barracks griping, but Klapp, a Viet Nam veteran, was in dead earnest. He charged the Army with false advertising and claimed he had a right to quit. Understandably miffed, the chain of command processed Klapp's papers as slowly as it well knows how. Yet Klapp persevered and won an honorable discharge, a full three years before his hitch...
...mainly to rest up until he could plunge into politics again as a candidate for the Senate or for Governor of California. Donald Rumsfeld, 40, also leaves under gloomier circumstances than those under which he arrived. Considered to be a young man on the make under Nixon, he has quit as director of the Cost of Living Council to become Ambassador to NATO, a job usually regarded as a steppingstone to retirement. One reason for his falling out with the President was his purported differences with Shultz. When Shultz asked him to give up his White House office for another...
Several of Jacobson's patients suffered bad effects from their treatment. Film Producer Otto Preminger, a patient for a short time, quit because the shots made him feel "terrible." Said he: "It was one of the most fearful experiences of my life and I'd never go again." Tennessee Williams' brother says that the playwright spent three months in a mental hospital after Jacobson's treatments. Another patient, Photographer Mark Shaw, died of an overdose of amphetamines...