Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors of the Proposition Theater have quit their jobs, ending a four-week labor dispute with the theater's management...
...Italian, after all. But that's not how it turned out." Catania quickly adds: "I have no real complaints." In some cases, political husbands have enjoyed unforeseen boons from their wives' careers. When Patsy Mink, 46, was elected to Congress from Hawaii in 1964, her husband John quit his job as a hydrologist with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, won a fellowship to Johns Hopkins University and later joined a Washington-based scientific consulting firm that regularly sends him to the Pacific basin...
...pharmacist, the grand jury was reconvened in April 1970. But it was muzzled by Dinis' reluctance to press the investigation and by a court order prohibiting the jurors from summoning witnesses who had already testified at the inquest and from examining the inquest transcript. The grand jury quit in frustration, and Dinis declared: "The case is closed...
...Labor government Commission on Industrial Relations, disclosed that he might not vote for Wilson this time because the party "had been sold in bondage to the Trades Union Congress." At a televised press conference, Shirley Williams, Minister of Consumer Affairs in the outgoing government, said that she would quit politics if Britain should withdraw from the Common Market in accordance with a referendum that Wilson has promised to hold at the behest of his party's left wing and their union supporters...
Screaming Insults. The Lombardi cult has grown, rather than diminished, since he quit as coach seven years ago. So it did not take long for Green Bay to start comparing Devine unfavorably with Lombardi. Shy and softspoken, he lacks the bluster and magnetism of the late leader. Like any coach fresh from a college campus, he arrived on the chilly shores of Lake Michigan with quite a bit to learn about the pro game...