Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frederick may indeed have been afflicted with genius. Born in 1860 to a piano-manufacturing family, he quit school at the age of 14-but was teaching by the time he was 18. In his 20s and 30s, he pursued painting and photography with a dilettante's passion. Rolfe did not commit himself to serious writing until he was almost 40. The work barely bought dinner: his Chronicles of the House of Borgia was composed on a paltry advance of ? 1 per week...
...each. The ethics committee, headed by Georgia's John J. Flynt Jr., has been looking into Koreagate for almost ten months without noticeable progress. Further tarnishing the House's image, the committee's counsel, Philip Lacovara, 33, who was Jaworski's Watergate assistant, quit two weeks ago, claiming that Flynt was not fully cooperating...
Item 3: Any habitually anxious air traveler can imagine the concern of the airline that requested a Boston-based stewardess to quit draping herself in ceremonial voodoo jewelry while working. Still, her religion so attached her to the artifacts that she resisted the request with a complaint to the Massachusetts commission against discrimination. Unfortunately, the issue she presented was left muddled: the airline compromised, permitting her to wear her voodoo jewelry with half sho"wing and the other half concealed. Questions: Is there not some limit to an individual's right to insist on private taste in dress while...
Halperin started her college career wanting to be a doctor, but quit after taking organic chemistry to pursue an independent major in women's studies and psychology. "Organic knocked me off the pre-med track--it seemed so cold and technically-oriented," she said. "I'd always viewed medicine as an essentially human science...
Police discovered that one victim -John LaMay, 17-had been seen in the company of two homosexuals: Patrick Kearney, 37, an electronics engineer for the Hughes Aircraft Co., and his roommate, David Hill, 34, unemployed. In May, as the investigation went on, Kearney quit his job and took off with Hill for El Paso, Texas, where they went into hiding. But last week the two men were arraigned for murder. They had calmly walked into a sheriffs office in Riverside, Calif., and pointed to their photographs on a nearby wanted poster. Said Hill: "We're them...