Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bleakly, president of the Rollins College student body. "We need a national purpose and a candidate of honesty and virtue. Muskie talks about it, but he doesn't bring it off." Another Rollins student, Sam Crosby, wants to get one message across to all of the candidates: "Quit lying to me, man! I am not an idiot...
...everything, teaching them to transform those refusals into a judgment of their worth as individuals and as citizens." The point is eloquently put by one mother: "I don't know how to keep my kids from getting stained and ruined by everything outside. They are alive, and then they quit. I can tell it by their walk and how they look. They slow down and get so tired in their face, and they get all full of hate...
...feels that a report falls short of his own high standards, quickly loses patience with mediocre work. "He is the Vince Lombardi of NSC policy," says Winston Lord. "He makes us do things we never thought we could do." Those who do not, or will not, soon quit...
...captain $135, which is doubled if he commands a ship. There are enormous differences between the life-styles and privileges of the various ranks. Officers above the rank of commander, for instance, are provided with housing near bases for their families; enlisted sailors-mostly three-year conscripts who quit the service for jobs at home when their enforced tours are ended-get neither a housing nor a living allowance for their families...
...coordinators of People Switchboard have set a February I deadline for an administrative decision on funding of their project for next year. If no decision is reached by that date, John M. Farago '72 and Daniel A. Gensler '72 say they will quit the student information center they founded this year...