Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straightened that fella out." Mamma?who forbade him to play football because she thought it was too dangerous?had a talk with Joe. "Son," she said, "if y'all can't get along with the white man in the South, y'all better leave home." Joe quit school, hitchhiked to Charleston and caught "the first thing smokin' that was goin' north." He's been smokin' ever since...
...continuous infighting. Within SDS, PL and its sympathizers now control New Left Notes, dominate the debates at national meetings, and hold overwhelming majorities on the national committees. But if there is now only minimal opposition within SDS to PL's leadership, it is because hundreds of students have privately quit SDS-and whole chapters have bailed out-because they no longer have an influence on the national organization...
...Soviet Union and North Vietnam. But this type of guilt-by-association-true or not-is completely inappropriate in the case of poor, struggling countries under military siege, and does not even concur with Lenin's writings. "What it amounts to," said Ed Goldman, a Columbia student who quit PL late last year, "is that a bunch of white middle-class students are saying that a national liberation organization that has liberated four-fifths of Vietnam is selling...
...Crimson does go, it will be without senior Hal Calbom, the squad's fourth leading scorer and junior Vince Lackner, a reserve forward, both of whom quit the team Tuesday to emphasize, they said yesterday, their dissatisfaction with the Crimson coaching staff...
...quit the suite, happily to discover the cooler air of the corridor outside, you look back to see Sutherland's six feet four inches silhouetted against the weak sun that now washes through the window. It's after five. But for a flight back home, his day is finished. And you can sympathize with his exhaustion. Because, you think, even if you consider his politics even more confused than you figure your own, at least he's doing something. And, well, maybe if one of the side effects of this war has been to make someone like Donald Sutherland more...