Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starting members of the Harvard women's basketball team. Marget Long and Lisa Leithauser, decided over vacation to quit the squad. They will leave the team at the midseason mark before as Friday Dartmouth rematch...
...much-publicized arguments with feminist leaders. Attacked for caustic comments up to and including "Women should be kept in cages" (on an Orson Welles talk show), Mailer maintains that it's harder for women to be feminine after the technological advances. Mills quotes him pleading with women not to "quit the womb." Abbie Hoffman says Mailer "sees feminism as the decline of civilization" but describes how Mailer's own social habits counter his chauvinistic image. But Mills also quotes Germaine Greer, who said Mailer "pushed himself into the feminist debate because it actually made him feel more masculine, more heroic...
...Department officials, well. So well, in fact, that few people knew of Fiallos' growing misgivings about the onetime revolutionaries who hold power in Nicaragua. Last week, however, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry announced that Fiallos was being reassigned to other unspecified duties. Fiallos' version was that he had quit, becoming the second Nicaraguan Ambassador to the U.S. in two years to do so out of disillusionment with the Sandinista regime...
...Aggie football players off the team. The brutal 110° F heat was not the only brutality. "It was terrible," he says. "All my life, I've wondered if that was a mistake. I believe if I'd been one of the players, I'd have quit...
...once even sent a written critique to the President about the Administration's Middle East policy. Rostow, who was recuperating from a hip operation in Connecticut, telephoned National Security Adviser William Clark to complain about Grey's fate. But he did not seem angry enough to quit...