Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quit, can't stop trying to help, for that would make me an accomplice to the apathy and complacency that assassinate the human spirit. I haven't found what I'm looking for: a long-term strategy of improvement and repair for our ailing society. Perhaps I never will. But I know now that I'm not satisfied with the standard phrase of comfort frustrated volunteers get: "Anything is better than nothing...
When did this vast cloud of depression settle over the movies' police force? Possibly when Joseph Wambaugh quit the Los Angeles department and started writing realistic (and highly adaptable) novels about the modern lawman's unhappy lot. In any case, it is now the formula for cop movies: the detective hero is usually divorced, drinking too much and sleeping too little. Often he wonders what it all means -- running around, risking your life and not making any discernible dent in the crime rate...
...Being made to feel guilty by the coach when you try to quit...
William Kovach who quit his job as editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution after a highly publicized battle with the paper's management, was named curator of the foundation on August 2, succeeding Howard Simons...
William Kovach, who quit his job as editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution after a highly-publicized battle with the paper's management, was named curator of the foundation on August 2, succeeding Howard Simons...