Word: quiteness
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...applaud TIME for printing the words of Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy as his battalion easily routed Iraqi fighters outside the town of Kut [WITH THE TROOPS, April 14]. McCoy said, "Let's quit pussyfooting and call it what it is. It's murder, it's slaughter, it's clubbing baby harp seals." Some may believe the antiwar protests should have stopped once the fighting started, for fear of demoralizing American troops, but I am more concerned about the morale of those who will spend the rest of their lives dealing with the horrors of war. The suffering on both...
Taking place in Rabagliati's native Quebec during the heyday of Queen and Supertramp, "Summer Job" begins with Paul, the author's alter-ego, having just quit school and suffering the tedium of working at a printing press. Artistically inclined, he had acquired a government grant to paint murals on the school walls, but a ruthless principal pulled him off the job due to low marks. Bored, directionless and angry, the last stroke comes when Paul's pet bird dies. Luckily an acquaintance calls to offer Paul a job as a counselor at a woodsy camp for underprivileged children...
...took awhile for Lawless to find the right practitioner. She lucked upon psychopharmacologist Winthrop Burr. “I credit him with saving my life,” she says. “He never quit...
Because other Let’s Go writers have quit over the course of the spring, editors and researchers working on the China guide have been able to take positions working on other guides, Shah said...
...also says that he believes that recruited athletes who quit their teams, as he did when he was an undergraduate, often go on to contribute much to campus life in other areas...