Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurt either. They are sharp people who answer a need remote to the times. Undoubtedly, the Poonies have a great time, and some of them are among the best, most amusing undergraduates to be found at Harvard. They deserve the right to become a final club and to quit worrying about publishing a quarterly rag sheet...
...thus may have a good deal to say about the party's Viet Nam policy, before and during the campaign. Shrugging off the efforts of House Republican leaders to dissociate themselves from the President's Viet Nam policy, Dirksen declared gruffly: "They offer no alternative. Do we quit? Do we stop the bombing? There has to be an alternative. You don't declare a holiday in war unless both sides are willing to go to the table. There have been no indications that the other side will talk...
Long Way to Go. Tax money that should go for law enforcement in Guerrero often finds its way into someone's pocket. One day recently, almost 20% of Acapulco's 120-man police force quit because it had not been paid for 70 days. The state police force has dwindled from an original 140 men a year ago to ten; the policemen quit or get killed off faster than they can be replaced...
...Liberals in 1963, drifted along under the shaky but cantankerous leadership of John Diefenbaker, 72, the suspicious Westerner who has been trying to blot out modern life with interminable reflections on the pure, brave simplicities of his youth. At long last, after a seven-month battle, Dief decided to quit as Conservative boss, but not without making a final spectacle of himself, first by running for the leadership, which hardly anybody wanted, then by giving up after the third ballot and backing a candidate who was rejected by the Conservative Convention in favor of Stanfield...
...insisted that priests, as citizens, have every right to engage in politics as their conscience dictates. In recent weeks, however, Cousins has admitted that he has been under strong pressure to discipline Groppi; the chancery office has been besieged with hate letters and telephone calls; some Catholics have quit the church, while others have organized a campaign to withhold contributions...