Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Mondale had lost some of the drive he had generated in the vice presidency and his staff members had picked up on it. They became disheartened and even angry that Mondale was not bearing down hard enough. One of them was ready to urge Mondale once again to quit. "I'm not going through this whole thing again," the aide told colleagues...
...than running a traffic light. He can afford a fantastic lifestyle, he doesn't have to go to work at 7 a.m., and there are few dissatisfied customers." The agent might have been describing Leonard, a former social worker who sold cocaine for six years until he decided to quit the business in 1981. He bought a pound at a time...
Some of them will steal. Nicky, 32, the son of a prominent Boston family, was in the midst of a third attempt to quit cocaine. One Sunday last December, he stole a cache of jewelry from his parents. In exchange for the $50,000 worth...
...right for French President François Mitterrand last week. His Premier, Pierre Mauroy, was chased out of the annual Paris Agriculture Show by the boos of 1,000 hecklers who tossed beer cans at him and shouted, "Resign! Resign!" Army Chief of Staff General Jean Delaunay quit to protest plans to curb military spending by cutting manpower in the armed forces. But the greatest show of displeasure came from a majority of the country's 28 million voters. In the first of two rounds of balloting for municipal elections, they delivered an unambiguous message: mounting disillusionment with...
...presenting the act as dignified, respectable, even attractive? Koestler's effusion in the how-to book for which he wrote the preface was characteristic of the movement's publications: "The prospect of falling peacefully, blissfully asleep is not only soothing but can make it positively desirable to quit this pain-racked mortal frame...