Word: quit
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...Topic A around the Vatician these days is whether Pope Paul VI will resign when he reached 75 on Sept. 26. In 1966 Paul urged that bishops retire at 75. Shortly thereafter, he titillated papal observers with an odd pilgrimage to the castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit the papacy in 1294 after only five months in office. Within the past month, two Rome weeklies have primed the speculation. L'Espresso ran a poll of Curia opinions on whether Paul would step down (65% said no), and Il Mondo suggested waggishly that an unnamed cardinal was making...
...says. 'I tried to convince them they were making a mistake. I talked with them the way I'd talk to my sons. I asked them to seek other advice--from people outside football--and to add everything up. Sometimes, truthfully, you're better off when some of them quit...
THOUGH I HAD MANY outstanding junior varsity games, and was frequently the leading rusher. I finally quit the team after gaining 180 yards against Princeton. I had seen players like DeMars and Crone advance to starting positions on the varsity, but I remained a lowly junior varsity, but I remained a lowly junior varsity player. From week to week. I would go in and ask the coaches why I was not being moved up to the varsity. They gave me every reason in the world but the truth. On different occasions, Stephens would tell me varying reasons...
...replace Roger Hoefer, who quit the team last Friday, coach Bruce Munro has moved Dick Carey up from the third midfield to the second, where he joins Leif Rosenberger and Dave Crawford...
...upset, the forces of Marshall McLuhan were in disarray. Edmund Muskie's media consultant, Robert Squier, resigned because he was no longer wanted; the candidate pronounced political TV spots an "abomination" and promised not to use them again in the campaign. After his badly mauled client John Lindsay quit the presidential race, Media Wizard, David Garth, confessed that TV is "highly overrated in importance. A multitude of commercials-good, bad or indifferent-will dilute all television influence." Overloaded, the big eye had blurred. The light had failed-at least for some...