Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sulfurous newspaper publisher William Loeb, who accused the Congressman of sexual excess and heavy drinking. Says Crane of his long campaign: "It's like the old moron joke about the kid who was hitting himself on the head with a hammer because it feels so good when you quit. I told the folks back home everyone ought to do this once in his life, ideally as early on as possible, because every day after it's over is a good...
...highest-paid woman executive, saw a story that she had been asked to resign. Pfeiffer, 47, then wrote out an indignant statement and phoned the press. Said she hotly: "It is apparent that there are some who are trying to use the media to get me to quit. I won't quit...
...then, in a characteristic run-in with the powers that be, Rooney quit over CBS's refusal to air his essay on war-written, he recalls, from the perspective of "a soft hardhat." The network sold him the piece for a nominal sum, and he took it to public television. Minus his old frontman, Rooney narrated the documentary, and so it was that his on-camera career was launched...
...chance against Frazier in 1971, and lost. "A message from Allah to quit clowning, he said. "I'm big now, got more important things to do than beat people up. Got to spread the word...
...only child," he recalls. "Patti was away at school, and I had the place to myself. Dad was home for dinner almost every night, and the three of us were together." Ron joined his father's 1976 campaign and performed routine chores for a few months, but quit when he found the work "tiring and boring." At Harvard High School in North Hollywood, he played basketball, took up writing and did well enough academically to get into Yale. "I got into Yale through no fault of my own," he says. "What I was doing was wandering. I thought...