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Word: quits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapidly approaching that point. The Great Society is sputtering along in low gear because, as one Administration official put it, "the governmental structure has outrun the funds." Rumors of wholesale resignations are making the rounds in Washington in the wake of Robert Mc-Namara's decision to quit the Defense Department. United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg is expected to depart within a few months; Labor Secretary Willard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Mood Indigo | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...help build a disciple family is to make sure that parents and children never stop doing meaningful things together. Family games, hikes, building projects and political debates-such activities underline adult skills that children then naturally want to have. Just because evening meals get tense is no reason to quit them; there is no better ritual for spotting and curing the tensions. A San Francisco family has no fear of the kids' trying drugs; everyone does volunteer work together at the narcotics-control center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON BEING AN AMERICAN PARENT | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...cafeteria riot, threatened a "lie-in" on the football field to scuttle a homecoming game. Jones, who has headed Grambling since 1936, asked for National Guard protection, and Governor John McKeithen dispatched 600 soldiers to the campus. When Jones expelled 39 of the demonstrators, nearly 1,000 other students quit in sympathy but returned a few days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Grumbling at Grambling | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...them announced in a full-page advertisement in The Daily Princetonian last week that they were resigning. The list included the presidents of the junior and senior classes, the vice-president of the Undergraduate Assembly (UGA), and the past and present chairmen of the Princetonian. Fourteen of those who quit Nov. 1 were members of Ivy Club, one of the two or three most prestigious...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Princeton Revisited: Clubs Are Changing | 12/12/1967 | See Source »

Albee might have given Garden more moral impact by exercising more audacity. Suppose the wives had loved their work, and the husbands had quit theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Tattletale-Grey Comedy | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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