Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kevin, who had not known that his mother was in Iran, was given only 20 minutes advance notice of the reunion. "There was a lot of kissing and hugging, but there were no tears," Mrs. Timm recalled later. The two sat on a couch, and "we never quit holding hands, like we had a permanent attachment to one another." An Iranian television crew filmed the meeting, while a few of the militant captors watched in silence. They let the reunion last for 45 minutes...
...picture is hardly brighter among the regular troops of the former Rhodesian government. Some 100 middle-ranking white officers, out of 800 active during the war, have handed in their resignations. More than 900 members of the elite Selous Scouts have quit, and many of them have joined the South African Defense Forces. Not even the influence of Lieut. General Peter Walls, the Rhodesian armed forces chief who was named last week to a joint military command, has fully restored confidence among the white officer corps...
...international celebrity and artistic and financial success: Louis Armstong and Duke Ellington occupy a warm corner in our popular mythology. But jazz, financially speaking, is a marginal music, and America's margins can be narrow indeed. Ken McIntyre's frustrating experience--he grew tired of getting ripped off, he quit--is far more representative of the jazz life as it is known by most of the men and women who try to eke a living out of this most uncompromising art form...
Near the end of the first set it appeared as if the match would just be a matter of going through the motions for Roberts. But Connel refused to quit, battling back with a series of deep corner volleys...
...situation went from bad to unbearable," James Ehling, a former restaurant employee said yesterday. "People were ready to quit," he added...