Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protest in a silent, symbolic fashion, for example, by wearing a black arm band. More active forms of protest may be tolerated such as briefly booing, clapping hands, or heckling. But any disruptive activity must stop when the chair or an appropriate university official requests silence. Failure to quit in response to a reasonable request for order is a punishable offense...
...McCune's new job did not go to General Manager Thomas Wyman, 45. A sales and administrative whiz who came to Polaroid ten years ago from the Nestle Co., Wyman had been widely regarded as the heir apparent. But just before McCune's promotion was announced, Wyman quit to accept the president's job at the Green Giant food company in Le Sueur, Minn. Wyman denied strenuously that he had had a falling out with Land, but he was clearly tired of waiting. The attraction of Green Giant, he explains, "really is a matter of running something...
...pretty, blonde woman with an expansive smile, Jong is giggly and ebullient, sprinkling her talk alternately with four-letter words and literary allusions. At times in her life, she has suffered from depressions, insomnia and other problems and, in fact, quit psychoanalysis last fall after eight years of therapy four times a week. She is happiest when left alone to write and complains that success can be lethal. "People always want to collect you for cocktail parties and take you to bed," she says. They have also inundated her with letters spelling out ultimate secrets. Notes Jong: "The whole thing...
...chaos as usual last week at freewheeling Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Disgruntled trustees were trying to fire the president, who refused to quit. The new chancellor, an apostate Jesuit who says he took the position "so I could get married," was reassuring professors that they would keep their jobs-although the college fired 25% of the faculty last spring and cut the survivors' pay by 13%. At the rear of the admissions office, students were busily stuffing envelopes and making telephone calls in a desperate attempt to recruit more freshmen next year so that the college...
...interviewer, "lived for baseball, had no idea what I wanted to be." Which may explain why Hersh, a B student at the University of Chicago, dropped out of law school after a year and drifted into journalism in 1959. He ended up with the Associated Press but abruptly quit when it cut his piece on chemical and biological warfare from 10,000 to 1,700 words...