Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope she's happier than she was here," said Hughes Rudd, Sally's co-anchor on the CBS Morning News. Just five months after the network had hired her away from the Washington Post to make trouble for Barbara Walters of NBC's rival Today, Quinn quit. The victim of a premature publicity buildup and her own inexperience, Sally had also an unfortunate style: she picked over the news as if she could not decide which fork to use. She will join the New York Times's Washington bureau in March. Miss Quinn, 32, was cautious...
...defense sympathizers is now investigating every member of the jury panel. One woman, who has already been tripped up, gave open-minded answers in court that contradicted computer predictions. A tip revealed that far from being the regular Methodist churchgoer she claimed to be, she had actually quit her church after an unsuccessful fight to oust a minister she considered too liberal. She was dismissed for cause by Judge Fred Nichol because of her lack of candor...
...accepting the $52,500 job, Mrs. Karpatkin, the mother of three adolescents, will quit her private law practice. She and her husband, who is addition ally an unpaid general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union, have been partners since several years after her graduation from Yale Law School. Their clients have included school districts, draft-card burners, divorcees, a few small companies and Model Twiggy...
...perhaps recalling his own humble origins-was especially helpful in getting black businesses started. His only setback came in 1967 when he lost to Walter B. Wriston in a competition for chairmanship of the U.S.'s second largest bank. Not being No. 1 cramped him, though, and Wilcox quit in 1971 to join the investment firm of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co. There, says a friend, he turned down "about 50,000 job offers." Then Crocker offered him an irresistible challenge. Gauging Wilcox's reputation, one Crocker banker looks ahead and says, "A lot of people here will have...
...author also wrote Diary of a Mad Housewife. Her fine, deadpan humor this time lies in the narrator's calm assumption that these hideosities, and others, are quite normal. Emma's eleven-year-old son has changed, for no clear reason, from a bright little boy into a neurotic homunculus. Her husband, slyly cast as a successful publishing exec, is an insane hypochondriac and grunting lecher. Worst of all, her cheerful, friendly black maid, who quit some time ago to start a catering business, is hired to run one of Emma's dinner parties and turns...