Word: quitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother, dead now to this world but still roaming free in my mind, wakes me some mornings before daybreak. 'If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quitter.' I have heard her say that all my life. Now, lying in bed, coming awake in the dark, I feel the fury of her energy fighting the good-for-nothing idler within me who wants to go back to sleep instead of tackling the brave...
...never been a quitter," said the Rev. Jerry Falwell, choking back tears. But quitter he was last week, exhausted by unending financial woes and attacks from believers who opposed his rule at the PTL Christian conglomerate. The final straw was a decision by Federal Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds that Falwell's financial rescue plan did not accommodate creditors and contributors. Reynolds suggested that Falwell should control only, say, five of nine PTL board members. Convinced that new board members might help restore the defrocked Jim Bakker, Falwell resigned, along with top administrators and current board members. The entire affair, said...
Bork found himself buffeted by conflicting counsel from friends. Washington Lawyer Leonard Garment (who irritated Bork by presuming to act as his public spokesman) yelled at him, "If you pull out, you're a quitter!" But Irving Kristol, a conservative author, urged him to cut his losses and withdraw. Tired of the emotionally draining experience and bitter about his inevitable defeat, Bork slipped into the White House Wednesday afternoon and told the President he was inclined...
...relish being bashed around," says Bowen, but he adds, "I'm not a quitter. If I believe in something, I want to give it my best shot." Bowen has recently made two appearances before Reagan's domestic-policy council, and last week he again took his sheaves of facts and figures to the White House. $ Reagan was a sympathetic listener. "We all know somebody who's been hit by something like this," the President said. "It's simply not fair that middle- class people can be wiped out financially by an unfortunate health problem." But Bowen's numerous critics were...
Three years later, a 220t-lb. sophomore quitter has become a 280-lb. senior honorable mention Division I-AA AII-American...