Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about to give up, not about to quit." McCurdy said yesterday...
...draw participants to marches, boycotts and demonstrations designed to pry jobs out of white Harlem merchants and businessmen. Powell parlayed his popularity into public office in 1941, when he became the first black elected to the New York city council. He had visions of bigger things, however, and soon quit to run for Congress...
Last week, though, ARVN did not quite live up to Defense Secretary Laird's measure of success: winning 75% of its battles. In the very first hours of the offensive, in fact, ARVN suffered only defeat. The big loser was the 3rd Division, whose troops abandoned 14 firebases below the DMZ in five days. The 3rd was a newly formed unit, raised largely by conscription, of local men, including a good many draft dodgers and delinquents. Considering the ferocity of the initial North Vietnamese barrage, retreat made sense. But it was not sensibly executed. Some units quit the field...
...King of Rock and Roll" as he likes to call himself, appears at the height of his form on the song "Rockin' With the King" Sounding much like at the other Little Richard song with a piano banging at high speed, and a drum best that just won't quit "Rockin" With the King" could be as archetypal early rock song. It's easy to imagine Little Richard swinging his processed hair in the air, and wiggling his gaudily glad body as he screams out "Oh sock...
...major factor in last year's Harvard victory was the absence of Bobby Odaiz, Columbia's best performer last season. Odaiz has now quit the team permanently, but with the addition of freshmen Henry Bunis and Rick Fagel at the top of the singles ladder, he won't be missed...