Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have steadfastly refused to ignore apartheid. Two events late last year exacerbated the conflict. After the World Council of Churches voted a $200,000 grant to "antiracist" liberation groups in Africa and elsewhere (TIME, Oct. 5), W.C.C. member churches refused to accede to Vorster's demand that they quit the organization. Then came a visit from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, who not only refused to counsel the clergy away from politics but urged Christian action to counter apartheid. Vorster warned that the churches were "headed for a showdown...
Moon provided a legend of the theatrical kind that Gauguin himself invited. Here was an archetypal rebel against bourgeois civilization, who quit a prosperous job on the Paris Stock Exchange to find his true artistic self in Tahiti among brown innocents, baptized anew in coconut milk and liberated from his own and Europe's stale past by primitive ritual...
...industry while commercials were still legal. Dr. Daniel Horn, head of the Government's National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, predicts that the broadcast ban will reduce smoking by two major groups: teen-agers and the five to ten million adults who, he reckons, are really trying to quit smoking. About one-third of the would-be quitters interviewed by Horn's group reported that they craved a cigarette after watching a TV commercial. According to his figures, which are drawn from Government-backed surveys, 42% of U.S. men over 21 now smoke, down from 59% ten years...
Sophomore reserve forward Eric Fox, who quit after the Valparaiso game in early January, declined to comment on his reasons...
...junior Matt Bozek, who averaged 17 points per game last year as a starting guard, quit after the Princeton game near the end of February. He indicated at that time that he was getting no personal satisfaction from being on the team, and did have disagreements with coach Harrison's coaching methods...