Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions of dollars spent in the painstaking investigation and prosecution of the Watergate crimes were about to be cast aside merely to spare Citizen Nixon further anguish. Most alarmed was Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's staff, which had already lost one of its stars, Counsel Philip Lacovara, 31, who quit because of the Nixon pardon. Hasty calls were placed to Ford's top counsel, Philip Buchen, who professed surprise that any such study was under way. Later he assured the Jaworski prosecutors that no blanket pardons were imminent...
...first episode, Truckie had to cope with his old man's disruptive return from a prospecting expedition, a brother who wants to quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily...
Some cynics assumed that a deal had been struck between Ford and Nixon in the fateful early days of August: Nixon would quit if Ford would agree to pardon him at the earliest feasible moment. But that seemed highly unlikely, particularly considering that the pressures on Nixon to resign grew irresistible after it was revealed?three days before he quit?that Nixon had long been involved in the Watergate cover-up and had repeatedly lied to the nation about his actual role...
...with TCE, a man who stops at the corner saloon for a few beers or a couple of boilermakers develops vivid red blotches on the face. This degreaser's flush is so unsightly and persistent that men who wish to be rid of it have a hard choice: quit drinking or quit...
...member of the Medical Area group, Leslie A. Sullivan, quit her job at the Med School during the summer to become a full-time employee of District 65 working in the unionization drive...