Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the team, has been looking forward to this meet for weeks. When asked about his state of preparation, he told me yesterday, "Well, I broke my lower leg this morning, but I think I'll be alright for the meet." Sometimes I just wish McNulty would quit pulling mine...
Sometimes, though, it isn't so easy to joke about racists, and Ed doesn't joke about the subject often with the members of the Phoenix Club who blackballed him in the fall of his sophomore year. Three of Ed's friends quit the club when Ed was not accepted, but Ed wanted to join because he hoped it would give him the opportunity to meet the kind of people who eventually did reject him. The first reason Ed presents to explain why he wasn't admitted is his race. He adds, though, that whenever anything goes wrong, he pins...
...rink. Swiftly the college acquired a famous hockey coach, a winning team and a sure source of income from gate receipts and public rental. But as of last week, Union also had a rebellious faculty and a troubled president charged with selling out to the jocks. Its coach has quit despite running up a 46-7-2 record over 2% seasons, and so has his entire team...
...stomach and refers to hockey pucks as "black vitamins." A leg wound as an RCAF bombardier in World War II cut him off from playing, but at 56, he is legendary in hockey for building championship teams practically from scratch. He was doing just that for Union when he quit, and he did it twice before-first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then for Cornell. After his Cornell team won all 29 of its games, including the national college championships in 1970, Harkness moved on to coach the Detroit Red Wings. The pros, however, took a jaundiced view...
...were doing was creating more welfare recipients," she says. When she fought to keep her students with her for two years in a row in order to drill them thoroughly in spelling and grammar, other teachers tagged her a rebel and sent her anonymous hate letters. Collins finally quit in frustration and, using the money she had contributed to the pension fund (about $5,000), opened Westside in 1975 in one room of her family's brownstone...