Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affairs, quickly proved the most effective reorganizer the department had seen in years. He was brutal, ruthless and demanding-but he did what had to be done. He developed Labor's roundly applauded "National Plan" for growth, only to see it shelved by the sterling crisis. He nearly quit over Wilson's stiff price and income controls, yet his labor-management spadework was largely responsible for making them stick...
...candid volume of confessions called Dialogues with Christ, recently j published in Paris, Lemercier tells of the I Cuernavaca experiment. A Belgian, I Lemercier went to Mexico in 1944, intending to found a monastery with two other men. Both his companions quit, disillusioned with monastic life; in 1949, one of them came back at the head of a gang of pistoleros to destroy the monastery-although neither Lemercier nor the few monks who had joined him there were harmed...
...this the end of the Diet? No one was prepared to count him out. For one thing, the divided Tories had no one better-including Camp-to thrust onto the hustings if a new election were suddenly called. Aware of this, Diefenbaker was hardly inclined to quit. "Fight on, my men," he urged his supporters, recalling a medieval English ballad. "I am wounded, but I am not slain. I'll lay me down and rest a while, and then I'll rise and fight again...
...always remember this year's seniors," Coach John Yoviscin said recently, "as the class that wouldn't quit...
Several similar experiences convinced Opler that he'd better quit digging in the mud and find some connections. A few days after he discovered a family friend in the NBC hierarchy, Frank Music Affiliates discovered him and contracted for 26 of his songs...