Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members who quit the Likud, Yitzhak Peretz and Amnon Linn, wanted to express their discontent with the government's policies, notably its handling of the economy and of recent disturbances on the occupied West Bank. To Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, it seemed the right moment to deliver what he hoped would be a political coup de grace to Begin. Only two months ago, Begin had barely survived a 58-to-58 tie vote on a no-confidence motion. Peres found a new weapon in the government's latest statistics on inflation, which showed that in April alone...
...some reason, people can be horrified enough by a boxer's detached retina to implore him to quit fighting before it is too late, and yet be strangely unmoved by photographs of a man on fire in a disintegrating race car. Hockey fights are a sports fan's idea of an outrage, and a defensive back's how-to book on spear tackling is considered obscene. Auto racing is just auto racing...
...Long Beach Grand Prix. The layoff had been voluntary. The little Austrian simply stepped out of the cockpit one day and announced, "I have lost the desire." Lauda could no longer bring himself to take the car "to the limit, as I am supposed to do." So he quit...
Mark Donohue, the 1972 Indy winner, quit for a time because of an expressed feeling of dread. He got over it and died in the Austrian Grand Prix at Graz. Dashing Peter Revson gave "Miss World" a playful squeeze and asked, "Is there a better life?" His ended in the South African Grand Prix at Johannesburg...
From the President of the U.S. to Roberto Duran, everyone called Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute last week to wish Sugar Ray Leonard well after surgery to reattach the retina of his left eye. And almost everyone wished he would quit boxing. "Right now, we're not concerned whether his boxing career is in jeopardy," said Mike Trainer, Leonard's lawyer and friend. "His left eye was in jeopardy-that has been our concern." The injury may have been suffered in the Tommy Hearns fight last September, though Leonard did not begin to see a "spot" until...