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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staid Harold McGraw; he also demanded more autonomy for his magazine, which is the company's richest moneymaker, than McGraw was willing to grant. In this battle, Randolph made the mistake of allying with Executive Vice President Donald McGraw, who fell out with his cousin Harold and then quit the company and later left the board under pressure. Since Harold became chairman in 1976, another cousin, John McGraw, has also resigned as executive vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bid and Battle for a Publisher | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Surgeon General's report, Smoking and Health, was a 387-page bombshell that linked cigarette smoking to lung cancer, heart disease and other ailments. It also prompted many smokers to quit, led to the posting of health warnings on cigarette packs, and inspired Congress to ban cigarette ads from the air waves. Last week, on the 15th anniversary of the document's release, Surgeon General Julius B. Richmond issued a new report on smoking. As Richmond's, boss. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr., writes in a foreword, the second study provides "overwhelming" proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: More Smoke | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...legs when seated (known by the patients as "the Prolixin stomp"). Most patients knew they were taking "meds" because they were different from "normies"; yet when they tried to be normal by refusing medication, their behavior often became more bizarre. Estroff herself tried Prolixin to experience its effects, but quit abruptly after six weeks of tremors, only to plummet into near-suicidal despair. Said she: "It was the closest I ever got to being crazy, and the closest I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Two Years Among the Crazies | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...played alongside Austin, Carr at guard at Notre Dame, but quit the team the year after Austin graduated because he had no one to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube First Annual Basketball Mid-Year | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...Pagett) discovers that her poet husband (Ian Ogilvy) is impotent, at least as far as women are concerned. Turning pimp, he persuades his publisher to perform his husbandly duties upstairs while he reads his drivel to a party in the drawing room. In another, Sarah (Pauline Collins), who has quit her downstairs job, returns to disrupt the other servants with seances and other outlandish acts. It is hinted that she and Rose (Jean Marsh, co-creator of the series) had had an affair when Sarah was there before. Speaking of Rose's current roommate, Sarah says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return to Eaton Place | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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