Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to dismiss Cox. Ruckelshaus also in conscience declined. So Nixon fired...
Nixon said he had no choice but to dismiss Cox after the special prosecutor rejected Nixon's compromise, which would have allowed Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.) to hear the tapes and authenticate a White House summary of their contents...
...DeGuglielmo lasted only through the next election and was fired in January 1968. The Council embarked on an extensive search for a replacement and finally came up with James L. Sullivan in July of that year. But Sullivan's independence insured his downfall, and Crane collected the votes to dismiss him in May 1970, filling the vacant office with the present city manager, John H. Corcoran...
...myth that Arabs are militarily impotent. As one Arab journalist put it: "It doesn't matter if the Israelis eventually counterattack and drive us back. What matters is that the world now no longer will laugh at us when we threaten to fight. No longer will it dismiss our threats as a lot of bluff and bluster. It will have to take us seriously." Arabs round the world last week felt that they had finally shed their image as a people who could not and would not fight, an image that had grown out of the dismal defeats...
...York Yankees dumped him in 1964) as the Mets floundered in the Eastern Division cellar, dispirited and haunted by injuries. After a spectacular September drive, the team won the division title by inches on the last day of the season. That was Miracle I, which rational men could dismiss as an unrepeatable quirk...