Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BROWN at DARTMOUTH--I admit it. I haven't the faintest idea. Jake Crouthamel quit as Dartmouth's coach effective next Saturday, so perhaps the Big Green will have an extra incentive. Perhaps not. Brown 21, Dartmouth 17, and only because my father went to Brown...
Before I go, let me remind you to write to Rich, who writes the rock column and tell him not to quit. We've already received one letter and expect many more. See you next week, right here on this very page...
...succeeds, and despite the novel's wild premise the reader begins to take Booth and his compatriots seriously. One member of the group, Bruce Parmentier, joined the movement after several years as a lawyer. He began his career as a public prosecutor in a small New Jersey town, but quit the job when he found that he no longer wanted to jail the people he was prosecuting...
...problem was that he kept looking behind their transgressions, which were frequently ugly, vicious, mindless, to the poverty and brutality of their lives, their social handicaps, the system that doomed them from birth because they were black or foreign or the spawn of poor white families...So he had quit a step ahead of being fired for having the worst prosecutory track record in the state and opened his own office to defend the very people he had formerly prosecuted...
Part of the answer is that it's hard to quit. After you've played organized sports since the age of seven, being a team athlete is very much a part of your life...