Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pinder quit the Hawks Monday after a dispute with coach Billy Reay...
...also agree to play Charlotte in a film about the Bronte sisters presently being written by Christopher Fry. Beyond all that, the demands of domesticity may eventually outweigh her professional ambition. "I've essentially accomplished what I set out to do, and I'll be ready to quit the day my son says, 'I don't want you to go out.' " In Hollywood such familiar pronouncements have become grain-of-salt cliches. In England, at 51 Harvey Road, the forthright mistress of the house means what she says...
...Detroit's sister cities-Nagasaki and Pompeii." Pan American and Delta airlines recently shifted their downtown sales and reservations offices to suburban Southfield, which has also attracted the headquarters of Advance Mortgage Corp. The publishing firm of R. I. Polk and the Michigan Automobile Club are about to quit the city. Circus World is moving its toy warehouse from the fringe of the ghetto to Royal Oak to escape break-ins (80 in six months), fire bombs, sniper bullets, and what President Sidney Rubin calls "almost continual stoning." Laments Rubin: "We had to put our crews on 24-hour...
...addition, Krause has almost quit the team on three occasions. Each time, assistant coach Benn Merritt had to talk him into staying, though Merritt said recently that Krause really wanted to be dissuaded. Once Krause almost gave his quitting plans to the CRIMSON firstso that his decision would have an air of finality...
...Champion Joe Frazier consented to address the state legislature in Columbia-one of the few black men to do so since Reconstruction days. "We must save our people," he told the packed chamber. "And when I say 'our people,' I mean white and black. We need to quit thinking who's living next door, and who's driving a big car, who your child is playing with, and who your child is sitting next to in school. We don't have time for that...