Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past three years, 86 policemen have been indicted for crimes; 48 have been convicted, including two captains. A total of 407 cops have been fired or forced to quit after superiors accused them of such activities as consorting with prostitutes and selling heroin. Investigations are still going...
Should Nixon Quit...
From the start of the ceasefire, the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision has been powerless to halt the hostilities. The Canadian members of the ices were so frustrated by the commission's impotence that they quit last August. Upon leaving Saigon, Canada's chief delegate, Michel Gauvin, remarked: "We were sent to observe a peace and came to watch a war." Since then the commission's other members, Poland, Hungary, Indonesia and Iran (which replaced Canada), have displayed no enthusiasm for looking too closely at anything...
...heard stories last summer about his great successes on the basketball team of a local Baptist college. He'd had great offers from all over the Southeastern Conference but turned them down in favor of Samford in Birmingham. Then last summer I heard that Charlie had quit the team because he wanted to get closer...
...Britain's first postwar Labor government, Bevan not only carried the campaign to socialize medicine but charmed the stethoscopes off the doctors with a sound financial program and an appeal to the Hippocratic conscience, delivered in lilting Celtic cadences. In one of several exits and expulsions, he quit the Cabinet in protest against the government's decision to levy a small fee for patients' spectacles and dentures. Partly as a result, Labor was turned out of office in 1951; the electorate bit the hand that had fed it, with Sevan's false teeth...