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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss of 12 lettermen from last year's 26-4-1 team has hurt the B.U. squad. All-Americans Dan Brady and John Danby graduated last spring and All-American Bob Brown quit school to play pro hockey. Goalie Tim Regan, the first defense, and the first two lines including Dan 'Toot' Cahoon are not returning...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, | Title: Crimson Icemen Face Undefeated Terrier Squad | 12/6/1972 | See Source »

...What I need from a man is that he must love me. When I tell him that I want to quit acting and stay home and cook dinners, he must immediately say no." Why? "Because he should know that it is as a working woman that I am happy and can make him happy. He must believe that our relationship is forever and work for it, just as I want to believe it and work for it. And if it is not forever, then he must not be that sort of hateful person who will be inflamed at a breakup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just an Ordinary, Extraordinary Woman | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

Getting all that food to the patron's table is another story. The restaurant has been understaffed, and a large number of the originally hired waiters have already quit. Bureaucratic measures aimed at increasing morale have backfired. One waiter related that after being told he was a member of the big, happy Mama Leone family, he was warned that his eating at other than designated times would result in his dismissal...

Author: By Raymond A. Urban, | Title: Mama Leone's | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

...father a deacon at Brooklyn's Concord Baptist Church and his godfather a traveling Baptist preacher, but Vereen studied six months in a Manhattan seminary. "I was always being saved," he says of his upbringing, "getting on my knees and ridding myself of the demon." Though he quit the seminary and later had what he calls a "little lovers' quarrel" with the church, he says he went into the theater "because it allowed me to reach people in so many capacities, to build a frame and fill it up with the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Guided Missile | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...will take more than one season to bring about any significant changes. Noting that 15 officials have already been injured in the first two months of the current season, Referee Chogeg laments: "Once a referee in Israel was an honored man. Not so any more. I can't quit because it is in my blood. But I would not suggest that any young man get into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Soccer to 'Em | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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