Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest that Rosner take it like a man and quit feeling so sorry for himself...
...result, says Prokofiev, is that many students are convinced "that they are not receiving any profound and lasting education. They want to quit." The dropout rate has reached the point where 30% of the pupils who enter first grade do not finish eighth. In some regions, half of those who finish eighth grade fail to enter the two-year high schools. And of those who finish high school, only 20% are interested enough to go on to universities and the professional institutes...
There once was a pro football coach who quit his job because every time the players went into a huddle, he thought they were plotting against him. Today's coaches don't worry about the players. It's the fans-those rabid folks who shell out up to $42 apiece for a season ticket-that they're terrified of. After the Denver Broncos lost their first two games this season, one enraged fan poured a bucketful of garbage over Coach Mac Speedie's head as he ran for the locker room. And in Detroit last...
...Chancellor says he quit the party and became an ex-Nazi. Ex-Nazi or not, the world cannot take a chance; there is too much at stake...
...news of the fall of Nikita Khrushchev; this year it carried the most complete accounts of the trials of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam still try to jam VOA transmissions, but all the Communist countries of Europe except Bulgaria have quit jamming...