Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus in silent protest. At the Huta Warszawa steelworks, the site of large-scale resistance following last December's military crackdown, a strike siren wailed at midday, and up to three-fourths of the workers laid down their tools for a quarter of an hour. Entire departments quit work at some other Warsaw factories, and employees at the F.S.O. car plant held a peaceful demonstration outside the plant's gates...
...Harvard meant nothing to me," he recalled "But then arrogant west cost people don't know about provincial Eastern colleges. It I wasn't committed for two years I would have quit I didn't see what the big deal about coaching...
...from mule skinning to lumberjacking. He was 26 and heating rivets on a construction gang when he mailed off some cartoons to "a little gutter magazine." The cartoons led to a series of magazine jobs that eventually landed him at the Disney Studios story department, which he quit ("I didn't feel free") after six years. "I was going to raise chickens in the San Jacinto Mountains," he recalls, but a comic-book publisher with rights to Disney characters asked him to work on some ducks...
...Harvard Athletic Department those Greenidge from the list of nearly fifty applicants for the vacancy, created when the popular Joseph Bertagna '73, decided to quit the post for a career in publishing...
...English-born Barrett entered the Church of England ministry after his career as an aviation designer turned sour (he quit as a moral protest in 1951, when nuclear rocketry began taking over the field), and he made his way to Nairobi. There he served as a researcher for the Anglicans. "We are neither East nor West here," he says, "and Africa is also the continent where the religious ferment is one of the greatest in the world today...