Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Cleveland, where the couple found no work, to California. Since arriving alone in the West, she had found work as a waitress ("a respectable job," Marshall assured her), but her husband unexpectedly found a job back in Cleveland. Neither she nor her husband, she explained, could afford to quit and risk unemployment. Separated from her family, without enough money to visit, the woman explained her "fantasy", she wanted a tape recorder so that she and her children could hear one another's voices instead of relying only upon letters...
...garage of his condominium and into his large Lincoln automobile. Surveying the cramped space and the huge guzzler, I thought: He'll never be able to maneuver it out of here. He did, though. But the engine was sputtering, and as we hit a main thoroughfare, it quit on him altogether. I told him that if he would guide the car to the curb, I would push from the rear. But he hopped out, held one hand on the steering wheel and pushed with all his might. This is a man with a pacemaker; at his age, what...
...that he bought ten Mirage jets from Peru, then cut a deal with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the delivery of five Boeings loaded with materiel. Galtieri also admits what everyone has suspected all along: he did not resign voluntarily after the debacle. His fellow generals forced him to quit...
...words when he wrote a school essay about his mother's death. He took the name Nicholas Gage and grew up to become an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Gradually, the grief of his childhood returned as an obsession. In 1979 Gage quit the newspaper to learn how and why his mother had been killed. He planned a crime of vengeance. He failed at that, but he has achieved instead, in Eleni, a kind of resurrection...
...provided the prose: "The great thing about college basketball is that you win your national championship on the floor, not in some poll. Everyone is captured at the end of the year by the excitement because there's always hope. It's always too soon to quit." Whittenburg and Lowe glanced at each other, and as usual nothing had to be said, but Whittenburg wanted to say it. "We'll live with this the rest of our lives," he told Lowe. Neither made All-America, first or second team. North Carolina State had no All-Americas, just...