Word: quit
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Billy Fulton, 25, had been a West Texas cotton farmer since 1977, when he bought 300 acres near Floydada. This year he quit. "For months," he says, "I've been trying to figure out what I did wrong. You get angry. You can cuss Reagan, you can cuss [Secretary of Agriculture John] Block, but there's no one to blame...
NOTEBOOK The loss leaves Harvard at 1-4-0 (0-1-0 in the Ivy League 0-2-0 in the Greater Boston League) with an important Ivy match with Cornell next Saturday Senior forward Richard Berkman continued Thursday he quit the squad after the UConn game Leading the team in scoring with two goals and one assist, Berkman cited several communication problems with Shattuck as his reason for leaving "I wouldn't quit the game for one incident, I love the game too much." he said Shattuck said he felt Berkman was unsatisfied with his role on the team...
Variety, which has 13 full-time reporters, three editors and one columnist, is celebrated, too, for its use of such exotic locutions as "canto" for week, "cleffer" for songwriter, "w.k." for well known and "ankled" for quit. The paper faithfully records the cross-continent comings and goings of celebrities, and covered one of the great upheavals of the '70s with the one-line note, "D.C. to L.A.: Richard M. Nixon...
...accounts, Grace Kelly lived a charmed life. Born into Philadelphia society in 1929, she grew up in high style and later cruised to stardom with an ease that seemed to suggest pre-destiny. Then after establishing herself as the screen's most-celebrated star, she quit the movies and married a real-life prince, in the tiny, prosperous principality of Monaco. She was America's first princess, and the closest thing to royalty our country ever had. For most of her life, Grace Kelly's feet never touched the ground. So when she suffered a stroke last week that...
...that no U.S. Administration has ever devised an effective policy for dealing with Fidel Castro, Smith especially blasts the rigid, confrontational approach of the Reagan White House. From the start, Smith contends, the Reaganauts were obsessed with forcing Cuba to stop meddling in Central America and, in particular, to quit supplying arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador. But U.S. attempts to pressure Castro backfired; he responded by seeking more arms from the Soviet Union...