Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress should give more money for research of basic health services, particularly in underserved rural and inner-city areas, rather than for research of disease such as cancer, Sammons said. "Let's quit this foolishness that if we throw enough money into it, we'll find a cure," he added...
...curtain rises on that familiar Albee landscape, a living room late on a Saturday night. Three young couples have been playing Twenty Questions, or, more accurately, Who Am I? Sam, the host (Tony Musante), is up, and though everybody else is tired of the game, he refuses to quit He wants an answer. His wife Jo (Frances Conroy) stops him, however, with a game of her own. One by one she tells their friends exactly who and what they are: Fred is a crude redneck, and Carol is his latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda...
...Kennedy must fight to keep his candidacy alive, while the President, preoccupied with events abroad, can avoid debating the key domestic issues: inflation and energy. When the overseas crisis finally ends, these issues will likely bounce back, but by then Kennedy may have quit. As events change rapidly, a candidate who is down one month could be up the next. In the politics of 1980, nothing seems certain but uncertainty...
Soviets in Afghanistan. Soviets in Cuba. Hostages in Iran. I'm tired of Carter's patience and idle threats. It's time we quit talking and kicked somebody...
Dutch bishops began publishing a new adult catechism, suspect in Rome because it sidestepped such teachings as the Virgin birth. Ecumenically minded parishes countenanced intercommunion with Protestants. Priests who quit to get married were retained on seminary faculties or continued, without episcopal approval, to function as parish ministers. Laymen and women began to carry out almost all tasks formerly reserved for priests. At a national meeting, Catholic delegates openly derided Vatican policy on priestly celibacy and birth control. Private confession virtually disappeared. There was even talk of breaking away from Rome, as England did under Henry VIII...