Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodies. They evidently discovered some of the corpses by checking out X marks on a crude map found in Corona's Bible. "I don't know where it's going to stop," said Sutter County Sheriff Roy Whiteaker. "We'll keep digging until we quit finding bodies." That could take some time. In Tehama County, 70 miles to the north, Sheriff Lyle Williams said the Yuba City murders strongly resembled the unsolved slaying of an unidentified man who had been dead about three months when his body turned up on a bank of the Sacramento River...
...host was 25 and had been a monk or four years. Before htat he had trained as an acolyte for seven years. He told me that he planned to quit being a monk when he turned 30-a common practice in Lao Bud-dhism...
...research firms on the Continent. The results showed that Euroman is roughly 34, married and has 1.5 children. He is employed by a factory or company that has 50 or more employees. In addition to sizable social benefits, he earns about $50 a week in take-home pay. He quit school at 16, but he speaks one other language, most likely English, well enough to read a newspaper or understand a movie. He watches his television set an average of 13 hours a week. He uses his neighbor's telephone, but expects to get his own within a year...
...Tiefer quit his job, sank his resources into a Manhattan storefront and hired a designer to help his wife. Before Melissa Tiefer, now two, was born, the Lady Madonna Boutique was ready for opening-day ceremonies-which included a buffet of pickles and ice cream and an array of statuesque, round-bellied mannequins...
...announced it is quitting the Motion Picture Association of America, under whose aegis the rating board operates. MGM President James Aubrey describes the code as "confusing and impractical." New York Theater Owner Walter Reade calls it "our Volstead Act" and wishes it the same end. There are even defectors from the censors' ranks. Stephen Farber, 27, a film critic who quit the board after a stormy six months, says, "Pubic hair and breasts, that's what they're worried about...