Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jumping has been the Crimson's enigma since the week before the Dartmouth Carnival when Nordic captain Chris Ferner and number two jumper Jim Platz quit the team. Ferner is one of the East's top jumpers, but neither he nor Platz felt motivated to compete on the carnival circuit this season...
...McCarthy liberals and peace-movement activists have become silent since they lost their jobs as laboratory scientists or systems analysts in the defense and research plants along Boston's Route 128. Despite the General Motors siege, there were fewer strikes last year than in 1969, and fewer workers quit their jobs...
...downtown commercial district of Santiago, a middle-class businessman shakes his head and declares sadly: "You stop trying to get ahead because you just don't know what is going to happen next." Twenty miles away in the tiny village of Las Vertientes, a local handyman has quit working and spends most days sitting idly in front of his crude shack. "El compaňero presidente," he says, "will give us everything we need...
...even more pocketbook-oriented decision was recently issued by the Oregon Court of Appeals, which upheld a $200 award to a young black woman, Beverly Williams, for the "humiliation, frustration, anxiety and nervousness" she suffered when she was barred from renting an apartment. The landlord was ordered both to quit discriminating and to pay the $200 in damages. In a similar New Jersey case last year, a rejected black tenant was awarded $500 for humiliation. If such awards continue, landlords may conclude that desegregation is cheaper than discrimination...
...only among Lib ladies but a sizable segment of the magazine's 359,000 circulation. Mailer moves in on Women's Lib with menacing metaphor, but ends in capitulation. Writing in the third person. Mailer finally admits that "he would agree with everything they asked but to quit the womb...