Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to please the rest of the world, trying to show them what good sports we are by fighting on the enemy's terms. I want to help stop Communism. If President Johnson starts acting like he wants to win this war I promise I'll quit college and enlist, just like my father did in 1941. But I'll be damned if I'll support Johnson with everything I have, including my life, if he won't support me with everything he has, including nuclear weapons...
...only feasible course; no recovery seemed possible in Wisconsin, Nebraska or Oregon. They relayed their prognosis to the candidate in a late-night meeting at Boston's Ramada Inn. Romney slept on it, and by the time he finished breakfast next morning his mind was made up to quit...
...then nothing still has happened. While the HPC has provoked academic change merely by lifting its collective little finger, nobody and nothing has provoked the administration to improve the way people live around here. John Polazzo, who used to live here, tried harder than almost anybody else. He finally quit in January...
THEY TOOK mostly upper middle class kids at that select Catholic high school and a few lower class kids who were very able. In a class of 33 kids, 28 ended up as Merit Finalists. It was the cream of the crop of the Italian community of Cleveland. I quit that school after a year and a half or rather I was kicked out. I found the education irrelevant. I wanted to go to class and get B's, enough to get by, but outside of class I wanted to be on my own, read books I wanted to. Most...
...played tackle on the Brown University football team and after graduation in 1938 went to work for his grandfather's old store. Finding little satisfaction in a business no longer owned but still heavily influenced by his family ("You can't get fired that way"), he quit within a year to go into show business. Over the next few years, he was both a theatrical agent (among his clients: ludy Holliday, Frank Sinatra) and producer for such Broad way shows as the Ziegfeld Follies...