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...Rose Bowl! Rose Bowl!" screamed Southern Cal rooters. But Notre Dame has never been a quitter. Parseghian draped his arm around Quarterback Huarte's shoulders, whispered briefly in his ear. No deception now; everybody
...tung has not been content to preach heresy. In the past six months he has aimed a rising torrent of abuse at the anointed heir of Marx and Lenin in Moscow. Invoking every filthy word in the canons of Communism, the Red Confucius labeled Khrushchev a revisionist splitter and quitter who has betrayed the faith by eschewing hard, revolutionary action in Africa, Asia and Latin America, espousing peaceful coexistence, and signing the nuclear test-ban treaty...
...like to get a little glazed yourself, pour a shot of rum or brandy in"). Some of his recipes read like calisthenic exercises: "Now add the vanilla and beat! beat! beat! If you think you are too beat to beat any more, you are a quitter!" Others encourage the housewife to pick quarrels with the quartermaster: "Ask butcher to lard beef with 1-in. strips of salt pork. If he won't take the trouble, curse him roundly, leave, and find a butcher fellow who will...
...business," Salinger wrote in a 1944 issue of Story Magazine. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz for a couple of months, where I slaughtered pigs, wagoned through the snow with the big slaughtermaster. Came back to America and tried college for half a semester, but quit like a quitter...
...were just applying poultices where a leg should have been amputated," Claudette recalled. "I asked the producers to close it then and do extensive rewrites-either that or let me out. One of them just turned to me and said, 'I didn't know you were a quitter.' " She stayed, and last week the show had its opening night in New York, proved to be something less than the critics' choice - so much less in fact that there was no second night. It was the quickest capitulation by a Broad way producer in three seasons...