Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junior varsity football team when he was a sophomore at South Division High School. Though he was never more than a bench-warming, third-string guard, he stuck the season out until his mother pressed him to give up the sport. "I told him I wanted him to quit," says Sylvia Bremer, "because it seemed that someone was always picking on him. He was strong and had big muscles, but he was too quiet to give those guys who were picking on him what they deserved." Mrs. Bremer, an orphan who never attended high school, says that...
Francis himself stands 5 ft. 8½ in. -tall for a jockey-and has pretty much been a winner ever since he quit school at 15 to ride. He has been a sports columnist, a horse trainer and a flyer, and he now owns a plane-rental service. All these experiences have been tidily folded into his crisp prose...
...into impecunious gentry in An Xa, a small town just north of what is now the Demilitarized Zone, Giap grew up at a time when the fairly stable 30-year relationship between the French and Vietnamese was coming to an end. At 15, he was taking part in a "quit-school movement" in Hanoi. Before he was 30, he was helping Ho Chi Minh organize his revolution from a base in China. Though he once taught school in Hanoi, Giap was no bookstack scholar. Two years ago, Giap's foster father, a South Vietnamese Red Cross official in Danang...
...Smokey refused to give me the ball. He kept on saying, "You can't quit on me now. Just leave it to me and I'll get us out of this jam like I did before. I'll reach back for something extra...
...daily-newspaper field. Such Pulitzer Prize alumni as David Halberstam and J. Anthony Lukas of the New York Times talked of low pay and insufficient "time to think." Freelancer Murray Kempton, ex-New York Post columnist, cryptically cited "spiritual reasons," and advised those with families to support to quit by age 40 in order to earn an adequate income elsewhere. Most who talked about the exodus from dailies conveyed the impression that they thought their talents were shackled by conventional newspaper discipline...