Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dose of down-home sass and straightforward irreverence. "There was really nothing outstanding about Jimmy as a boy," she once said of her successful firstborn, contending that Daughter Gloria, two years younger, was actually the smartest of her brood. And in 1976 she admonished her candidate-son Jimmy to "quit that stuff about never telling a lie." Lillian Carter, who died of cancer last week at 85, was never inhibited by her role as First Mother. That strength and independence made her one of the nation's best-loved matriarchs...
...fight came 15 days short of three years since the 32-year-old Duran stunned the sports world by saying "No mas" and quitting in the eighth round to lose the World Boxing Council welterweight title back to Sugar Ray Leonard, who was at ringside Thursday night. There was no quit in Duran this time...
...member on his own council leaked a story that Feldstein had been forced to alter two speeches and "throw away" a third one because of White House censorship. Top Administration officials have been hinting that Feldstein, who plans to return to his teaching post at Harvard next September, should quit sooner...
...hope of taking over at the NSC. A few months before, noticing that Clark seemed overburdened, she had offered to give up her U.N. post and come to Washington as his deputy. He had turned the suggestion aside, adding that she might become National Security Adviser if he ever quit. Just before she left for Central America, Clark confided that he was tired of the disagreements with Shultz. The NSC job was taxing his health, and he wanted her to succeed him. But she filed these conversations away as idle speculations...
Injured and abused this season, Dupree quit the team two weeks ago and went home to Mississippi. It was not until after he left that the academic counselor for the Oklahoma athletic department, Jin Brown, told a reporter that Dupree had essentially attended no classes this year. In any case, then, why was he still on the team? "When we give a kid an athletic scholarship, it's to represent us in games," Brown said bluntly. "Because he doesn't cut it scholastically, how can you hold him out of games...