Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the other positions they hold, however, are shared by fellow delegates, and as I sit and talk at length with Bernie, Jack and Daniel Eller, a former professor of Music at Eastern Michigan University who quit because of the "Marxist orientation of the department," I learn if there is one issue that really drives them it's the pro-life movement...
...Mama, quit peeling them peaches...
Until 1970, LG Frix, now 49, acted out a familiar Southern story: leaving the land. The son of a sharecropper LG (his actual name) quit school in the fifth grade because he along with his six brothers and three sisters, "had to work at home too much" on the farm just outside Atlanta. Eight years later, at 19, he struck out on his own, working first at a factory job, then in a chicken plant, then jobbing vegetables. But all the time, he says, "I still had that farming in my mind. It was like somethin' was botherin...
...Nick Yocca went out for the varsity football team and quit training camp after two weeks...
...chances are good that successful people already know all this. The author is thus writing for the great mass of time wasters, fully aware that they probably will not be able to quit having an extra martini at lunch, much less complete their long-range or short-term goals. Still, as a writer's priority, a large audience for a book...