Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory that Reagan would want to quit while he was on top was nothing more than a theory, one put out by people who have never been President. A man at the pinnacle who has had some success smells more; one who has not yet succeeded wants to keep trying...
...John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place Pigalle boite. In the '40s and '50s she ran clubs in Mexico City and Rome, then quit in 1961, saying, "I'm tired, honey, tired of staying up till dawn every...
...effectively has final by over filling what is widely considered Harvard's second most important administrative position, which Rosovsky will quit this summer to return to the teaching and research of Japanese economics...
...Gudmundsson refuses to heel. "Lucy is as much a part of the family as my children," growls the father of three. "Rather than part with her, we will emigrate and I will quit politics." Despite his dogged stand, the Finance Minister is on fairly safe ground: he may be in the doghouse, but as a member of parliament he cannot be jailed. Before things become irretrieverable, one wag suggests, why not transfer Gudmundsson to Iceland's United Nations delegation in New York? New Yorkers, after all, are not only accustomed to putting on the dog, but putting up with...
...Kellys had spent the previous week doing "a lot of sweating" with their lawyer as they tried to figure out what to do with so much loot. By the time the couple surfaced, they had already bought a new Oldsmobile, planned on getting a new house and quit their jobs (he was a $320-a-week truck driver, she a $150-a-week dry-cleaning attendant). The rest would go to relatives, traveling and charities. Uh, Dear Mr. and Mrs. Kelly: You might be interested in learning more about this deserving writer currently employed in the scintillating but underpaid field...