Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though his Administration has been laggard in providing aid for the veterans, President Nixon showed that at least he appreciates them. Said the Commander in Chief in a drum-thumping speech at the National War College: "Because they saw it through, because they did not quit, we were able to negotiate an honorable end to the war at the conference table, which would not have been possible had they not served with distinction and courage to the end."Many Vietvets, however, are now concerned about goals closer to home. A veterans' lobbyist later complained that Nixon "didn...
...atomic security" by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The specific charge-a flimsy one-was that Condon had associated socially with Eastern European diplomats who may or may not have been espionage agents. Condon resigned his post in 1951 to become research chief at Corning Glass Works, but quit in 1954 when he finally lost security clearance for Government projects. He got a degree of vindication in 1966 when he was appointed chief of an Air Force team investigating unidentified flying objects...
...weeks ago, indeed, a fed-up Umberto tried to quit in protest against a government-imposed labor contract that he considered the last straw. Umberto himself had asked Italy's Socialist Labor Minister Luigi Bertoldi to medi ate a three-month-old strike and slow down among Fiat's 200,000 workers...
...when I got here there was no bilingual program," Barboza recalls. "I was nine years old but I was put in first grade with six-year-olds because I couldn't speak the language. I caught up finally, but I'm still a year behind." One of her sisters quit school altogether...
Today the bilingual education program has eased the transition into the mainstream of English education for the Portuguese immigrant children, but there is still a high drop out rate among Cambridge's high-school-age Portuguese, as they quit school to help out their families economically...