Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't he quit? Why does he put in 30 hours a week only to log zero playing time in six games? To understand why you have to go back to the beginning of the season...
...Texas town found the bills so high that it quit paying them...
...peace with the press, has resisted all invitations at news conferences to accuse reporters of having driven Lance out of Washington. So all's well that-for the press-ended well? Not exactly. An NBC poll last week reported that 59% of the public thought Lance should have quit, yet by 45% to 42% they concluded that Lance was indeed harassed from office by the press. There is still something to be said about the means that were used...
...Nothing personal, you understand: we do it to everybody who gets in a jam. But this tumultuous, superficial "reporting," which is about all the public ever sees of reporting, gives all journalism a bad name. And these are matters to keep in mind, even though Lance was right to quit, Carter was wrong in defending him, and it was Lance's own failure to justify his past conduct, and not harassment by the press, that really brought him down...
...larger parishes are remaining loyal. But there is potential for dramatic skirmishes in the next year or two, especially if courts rule that departing parishes can retain their property. As if to remind the bishops of the threat, a parish in nearby West Palm Beach became the 18th to quit the denomination. It will join the emerging "Anglican Church of North America," which was proclaimed last month at an emotional rally of 1,750 traditionalists in St. Louis. Besides women priests, the group protests modernization of the church's liturgy, the Book of Common Prayer, and liberal trends...