Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrea: I was in a rock band, and I wrote music and doing a lot of singing. Nobody's Heard of it. We were pretty good, but I'm glad I got into this play, it gave me a reason to quit, because if I hadn't gotten into that play I would probably be still singing in clubs and not getting anywhere...
When Weaver answered, he recalls, "she would say, 'Well, it doesn't mean exactly this, but it means this, plus a little bit of that, and a hint of another thing.' When I realized that History contained 200,000 words, I decided to quit." Before he could inform Morante of his intention, she phoned, saying she had decided she could be of no help and would stop pestering him. Thus are great translations born...
...door is always open," says Roger Caron, a current pro prospect who quit the program as a sophomore. "I've always been able to go in there, into his office, and talk to him about anything...
When the reckless Sanjay died in the crash of his stunt plane on a hot summer day four years ago, Rajiv became the crown prince. He quit his pilot's job, entered politics, and soon won his brother's parliamentary seat. Named a general secretary of the Congress (I) Party in February 1983, he made a reputation for himself as a quiet-spoken reformer determined to bring new life and leadership to a largely corrupt and ineffectual machine, leading some Indians to refer to him as Mr. Clean...
Gandhi proved a surprisingly forceful administrator of the party bureaucracy. She weeded out a number of time servers, promoted younger officials, negotiated agreements among rival factions; she also played a key part in ousting a Communist state government in Kerala. But after a year she quit, saying that she had to devote all her energies to her father...