Word: quit
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...professional soldier who served as a foreign policy aide to Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig reluctantly gave up his job as Army Vice Chief of Staff to become chief of staff of Richard Nixon's White House after H.R. Haldeman was forced to quit. In that thankless assignment, Haig played a pivotal role as Nixon left office and, for all practical purposes, was the acting President in Nixon's last anguished days. After helping Gerald Ford settle into office, last October Haig was picked by the new President to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe, following a succession...
...finance her way through college and had to get a job so that she could begin paying her debt. The only employment she could find was as a clerk in a St. Paul dress shop. Last week, depressed by her work and unable to land a better job, she quit, gave up her apartment and moved in with relatives. "I'm not sure what I'm going to do," she says. "Sometimes I find myself virtually paralyzed...
...John Dexter, formerly with Britain's National Theater and the Met's director of production. Levine will be only the second man in Met history to hold the title music director, and he is expected to have more authority than the first, Conductor Rafael Kubelik, who quit the job in 1974. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and former Met board president during the Rudolf Bing era, thinks highly of Levine and has made no secret of his own reluctance to get involved in day-to-day artistic decisions...
When he failed to improve after the Mets traded him to the Angels following the 1971 season, Ryan nearly quit the game. Angel Pitching Coach Ted Morgan (now with San Diego) urged his frustrated pupil to slow his delivery. With that, Ryan started to develop a sharp curve and an effective change-up-"the only 90 m.p.h. change-up in the majors," jokes Fellow Angel Pitcher Bill Singer. Meanwhile Ryan had started using a scalpel to shave off the scar tissue and calluses on his ringers, under which blisters were forming. (To this day he spends five minutes before every...
...February 1973, three weeks after Hillary Putnam quit the Progressive Labor party, what did his wife, Ruth...