Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provided that the political authority and its military arm remain intact to mount a counter-offensive at the appropriate moment. The attitude also derives in part from intense thinking about Kriegswissenschaft or voennaia nauka, the science of war, of which the Russians are today, now that the Germans have quit the field, the world's addicts...
...hang onto his campaign sled in the snows of Maine and New Hampshire, events might turn his way. A two-man Democratic race might be an advantage to the party at this stage. A Kennedy dropout would leave a single target for Republican snipers. But Kennedy has not quit, and his staff remains focussed on the domestic issues that will rise to the fore with a break on the international scene. As they say in politics, it ain't over yet. Hang on to your convention tickets...
Hampered by the defection of alpine star, Kristin Hodgkins, who quit the team after it was forced into Division II for a week, only alpine captain Vera Fajtova, nordic captain Maureen Devlin, and fellow cross-country specialist Missy Holbrook put together memorable races...
...blockade of the island nation of Cuba, nothing in and nothing out until the Soviets withdraw from the Afghan nation. "All we've been doing is reacting. Why don't we give them something to think about, like Cuba?" he suggests, to cheers. "I think it's time we quit telling the enemy what we won't do, and letting them go to bed at night wondering what we might do." More cheers. Reagan is building to a climax. "The president told us SALT II had to be ratified or no one would like us. He told...
Mendelson and Mello conducted a 40-day study at McLean Hospital in Belmont of ten male volunteers who had used heroin for an average of ten years and had failed to quit after treatment with the two drugs currently used, methadone and naltrexone...