Word: quitting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...knows how to exert power as a result of his experience as a speaker of the Ohio house of representatives, complained last summer that "anyone who thinks being a Senator is fun just hasn't had much." Cranston, equally irked at the sluggish pace, suggested to him: "Quit complaining; let's see what we can do about this...
...kids to greet him: "The kids would all gang up around the airplane and I'd hand out all kinds of goodies." He did it for nearly ten years, but he was working as hard as he had in Stockton and, once again, his heart forced him to quit...
...Dean Watson, sad you had to quit...
...head north toward Florida and New York again, Goldman seems optimistic. "Right now," he says, "I figure that about two-thirds of the smokers are off tobacco." The real test will come once the voyage has ended. Says Goldman: "It would be wonderful if 30 to 40 percent quit permanently. We expect a minimum of 15 to 20 percent." At a costume ball as the cruise nears its end, a blonde dressed as a cigarette girl saunters out. Our applause is fiery and approving, the band goes into Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and we are all left to worry...
...trouble with you kids," said the wife of a New Bedford politician well-acquainted with losing and winning, "is that if you lose once, you give up and quit. What do you ever expect to accomplish...