Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more about Cuba." Smathers stopped-for a while. But one evening at an informal supper, Smathers says: "I raised the question of Cuba and what could be done. He took his fork and hit his plate, and it cracked and he said, 'Now dammit! Let's quit talking about this subject.' " Smathers...
...cheered him for not "bugging out" of Viet Nam; he lauded the entry of U.S. troops into Cambodia "to root Reds and Red war materiel out of hidy-holes there"; he has sympathized with Nixon over college officials who "bellyache" about campus disorders; he has urged Congress to "quit foozling and fussing around" with proposed anticrime legislation...
...change as inadequate. If the deadlock persists, Armstrong fears, there will be "a domino effect." Some auto insurers will pull out of the state; other companies, unhappy at the prospect of taking on money-losing business, will either resist writing new policies on unwanted high-risk cases-or else quit the state. Eventually, many drivers with less-than-perfect records will be unable to purchase insurance from anyone...
...Eddy thinks that he can keep going for another four or five years. Then he intends to retire. "I don't want to quit when I'm going downhill but when I'm at the top," he says. Until he does, what are his rivals to do? One French sportswriter had a suggestion: he would like to see Eddy carry a 30-Ib. pack on his back as a permanent handicap...
...recalls. "Though I was making about $50,000 a year, Bache didn't let me rise fast enough." In 1955, Stein quit and joined Dreyfus...