Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head north toward Florida and New York again, Goldman seems optimistic. "Right now," he says, "I figure that about two-thirds of the smokers are off tobacco." The real test will come once the voyage has ended. Says Goldman: "It would be wonderful if 30 to 40 percent quit permanently. We expect a minimum of 15 to 20 percent." At a costume ball as the cruise nears its end, a blonde dressed as a cigarette girl saunters out. Our applause is fiery and approving, the band goes into Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and we are all left to worry...
...trouble with you kids," said the wife of a New Bedford politician well-acquainted with losing and winning, "is that if you lose once, you give up and quit. What do you ever expect to accomplish...
...resources of a 20-year-old, living in the world of the half married, half widowed, were slight supports. She tried going back to her bank teller's job but had to quit; living in San Diego, a naval town where every uniform made her edgy, was too much. Finally, she achieved a bearable tension at her parents' Southern California home. Talks with her father, a retired Air Force colonel, and a friend who had been a World War II P.O.W., at least reduced the unknown terrors...
...begin writing-and building his body to be worthy of destruction. After publishing his first book at 19-a pretty, sensitive collection of short stories called A Forest in Flower-he finished his studies at Tokyo University and took a job in the Finance Ministry. In 1948 he quit the ministry, changed his name to Yukio Mishima, and published Confessions of a Mask. A fierce portrait of homosexuality-a subject with which Mishima had a lifelong fascination and, some say, involvement-Mask brought him fame. His best-known work, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, brought him a small fortune...
...leads the world in mass education, but much of it is wasted on the young. Pressured to study more and more (22 years from first grade to a Ph.D.), many enjoy it less and less (60% of collegians quit before getting degrees). Not only does youth's prolonged segregation in school create boredom and rebellion, it also shuts out many adults who yearn for more college training...