Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ferner and Jim Platz, who both quit the team before the carnival circuit began, returned at Middlebury to give the Crimson points in the jumping for the first time this season...
...grease, curses and the knowledge that tomorrow will be more of the same. The men, known as roustabouts, work and sleep 14 days at a time on the platform before they get a week's rest on shore. They are tired of this life. Many would like to quit. But they cannot. They find themselves trapped by the realization that however torturous the job is, the money is good, better than they could make anywhere else with their meager education, and that the poverty they come from is even more oppressive. So they stay, breaking their backs...
...little money from his parents, and he lived all alone in an uptown pad furnished with a mattress and a radio. "He got hung up on taking in weird people?runaway teen-agers and people like that." Taylor was also getting heavily into drugs, especially heroin. Zach Wiesner had quit the Flying Machine after three months. Partly from inertia and partly out of loyalty to Kootch, James hung on for a year and a half. Then he escaped?not to the structure of McLean or the tranquillity of Martha's Vineyard but to swinging London...
...paper. They were the raw material for collages, and he could not bear to leave them behind. In one pocket he carried a small wooden sculpture at which he whittled on his journey, and in the other a pair of white mice, one of them epileptic. He had quit Germany under Gestapo pressure in 1937, and his works had been banned-along with the products of his fellow Dadaists-as entartete Kunst, "degenerate...
...Crimson will be playing without junior guard Matt Bozek, who quit the squad this week for personal reasons. Bozek averaged 17 point a game last season playing the point on Harvard's 1-2-2 offense, but this season he has been used as a reserve, and has averaged only seven points a game...