Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while it looks as if My Name Is Nobody is going to be just another reworking of the familiar story of the gunfighter who wants to quit but cannot. That reckons without Nobody, who turns out to be not just a hero-worshiper but perhaps the first gunfighter groupie. He wants Jack to go out in style and assure his place in history by taking on not three or four baddies but the whole damn Wild Bunch-150 strong. Jack is reluctant; the kid persists. In the end he successfully maneuvers Jack into legendary status and sets things...
...Richard M. Nixon, son of a Quaker mother and an American father; Barry Goldwater, son of a Jewish merchant and an American mother; Lyndon B. Johnson, son of a Protestant mother and an American farmer; John Kennedy, son of a Catholic mother and an American politician. I'll quit, if you will...
...Cabinet members came away with two strong convictions: Nixon wanted them to carry on with their jobs, and he was not about to quit. But if he seemed politically naive about his desperate situation, Nixon showed no signs of emotional instability. There were no "Captain Queeg" mannerisms. Saxbe recalled later. "We were all looklooking for something like that. He was calm, in control of himself, and not the least bit tense...
...think he could do it. "Of course you can," she replied. "Pat is not a quitter," he told a nationwide TV audience minutes later. "After all, her name was Patricia Ryan and she was born on St. Patrick's Day-and you know the Irish never quit...
...ahead even earlier: in June 1973 he recommended that outlines of coverage of a Nixon departure be drawn up; by Jan. 14 of this year, the network's SEEP (Special Events Emergency Plan) was fleshed out on paper. Prepared over several months, the New York Times's "quit package" grew to seven ready-to-print pages on the Nixon presidency...