Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephones and news tickers at McGovern's temporary headquarters in Custer, S. Dak., quickly relayed the anger and dismay of key Democrats round the U.S. McGovern's finance chiefs, already facing a red-ink campaign, winced in despair. Editorialists let go their thunderbolts, crying for Eagleton to quit the ticket. McGovern calmly stayed put in South Dakota. Eagleton, at first shaken, gained strength through a hectic week of campaigning in California and Hawaii. By the end of the week, it was McGovern who seemed to be wavering as he apparently tried to ditch Eagleton without actually informing...
...political expedience. He describes the men around Nixon as "unprincipled sons of bitches." He is instinctively antiEstablishment. Riegle was doing well as a promising junior computer executive for IBM until he was sent home from work one day for wearing a blue shirt instead of a white one. He quit...
...Alex's swift fantasies of being a basketball star, in his coach's small complacent cruelties that drive Alex to quit, an American dream of winning goes winkling out. The thoroughfares of escape-rivers, highways-are encrusted, blocked arteries on the landscape...
That was two years ago. Since then, Prine, now 26, has quit the post office, launched into a career as a songwriter and singer, and emerged from his box, so to speak, as one of the nation's most striking new folk talents. But he is still singing the blue-collar blues. His leisurely, deceptively genial songs deal with the disillusioned fringe of Middle America, hauntingly evoking the world of fluorescent-lit truck stops, overladen knickknack shelves, gravel-dusty Army posts and lost loves. In a plangent baritone that makes him sound like a young Johnny Cash, he squeezes...
...Colas had to cook almost doubled up over a low stove. But that was a small, familiar drawback. Colas previously sailed Pen Duick singlehanded from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope to Brittany-a nonstop journey of 10,000 miles. Other jaunts included Australia to Tahiti (after Colas quit his job as a French lecturer at the University of Sydney) and Tahiti to Mauritius (with his fiancée, Teura Krause...