Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distance runner Walt Hewlett, wrestler Howard Durfee, or alpine skier Mark Jensen were all hampered by injuries, and yet they are the exceptions. The percentage of injuries is so small that it cannot be a significant cause in athletic decay. Older athletes at Harvard occasionally slow down but rarely quit. At the age of 23 or 24, it is understandable that Awori or butterflier Neville Hayes never matched their sophomore performances, especially after having already competed in the Olympics. Academics too can hurt, but again the statistics are not convincing: about two-thirds of Harvard's varsity athletes say that...
...quit New York during the depression for Toronto, where for 20 years he worked hard, shrewdly and courageously, "collecting moola for those bums I love -the prospectors...
...things that need to be changed in our city, and you can help us. You can help me." Taut, trim Major General George Gelston, Baltimore's acting police commissioner, added his voice: "Look, I've only been a policeman since April, and I'm going to quit in September. All I want is to get the job done, and part of that job is maintaining the peace in Baltimore...
...would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister's husband, Prospero Villalona, were baseball nuts too. By the time he was nine, Juan could throw a curve (his lopsided, homemade baseballs wouldn't do anything else), and he quit school after the eleventh grade "because I was crazy about the game...
Despite doggedly second-line direction, A Man Could Get Killed is almost salvaged by the gravelly glamour of Melina Mercouri, the resident adventuress who somehow plays every role as though she has just been ordered to quit port on the next steamer. Melina first appears in funeral garb, crying into her former paramour's bier while one black-olive eye winks out a thinly coded message to Garner. When her friends are in trouble, Melina growls: "Try the harbor master; he is in love with my aunt." When a search party orders her to take everything off, she starts...