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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Pussy is the sixth Ivy-League college president to quit his position during the last two years...

Author: By Reay H. Brown, | Title: Pusey 6th Ivy Head To Quit Post Lately | 2/18/1970 | See Source »

...semester I was told by Professor Zalewski of the Department of Architecture: "You are fooling yourself if you think you have learned anything by working on a UFS project this semester. If you want to work for these black people [the clients actually happened to be white] you should quit school. This work has no place in the School...

Author: By Dolores HAYDEN Campen, | Title: GSD's Urban Field Service: Publicly Praised and Privately Pressured | 2/17/1970 | See Source »

Subsequently, he said, B.S.U. leaders turned to "tactics of threat and coercion" that resulted in the humiliation of Maurice Jackson, the department head. Jackson, a black, quit Riverside after signing a statement giving the B.S.U. central committee broad veto powers over the hiring of the black studies professors and administrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Black Studies in Trouble | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...self down with barbiturates; to little avail. His sister once found him babbling outside school to a bunch of dogs and dubbed him a spaced-out Holden Caulfield. Peter loved, he thought, a girl named Bridget, Brooke Hayward's sister. She took her own life the same year he quit the University of Omaha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Flying Fondas and How They Grew | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...brash their teeth in (??) Cetrulo, he of the mighty sabre off the bench to poke and (??) a poor Trinity (??) touches to one, whereupon Keller, resembling a surgeon who didn't very much like his patient, cut up a victim five to zip. Thus inspired. Harvard's lesser lights finally quit puffing like fat men chasing a bus and got a little more art in their lunges...

Author: By Larry L. king, | Title: Kids, stray dogs, coke repairman thrill as fencers stick it to Trinity | 2/11/1970 | See Source »

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