Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World inspires a sense of déjà vu, it is no accident. Cousins edited the original Saturday Review for 31 years, then quit in 1971 when the new owners, John Veronis and Nicolas Charney, announced plans to transform SR into four special-interest monthlies. Cousins then founded World, an earnest and rather bland biweekly. After the Charney-Veronis venture collapsed last spring, Cousins bought back the SR name and subscription list. So instead of competing with the new SR, Cousins' World ended up absorbing...
...Only one thing is disappointing about this place [Harvard]. Weren't they able to produce one man who would quit, quit the job, quit the power, walk away, spit at it, spit at them and everything they were doing? Wasn't there one fella who would do it? What's the matter with these people? I see all these names--the Bundys and all the rest--they're out on the street when the Berrigans are in jail...
...this is wrong and I'm going to throw it right out the fuckin' window and take a walk and blow the whistle on these bastards.' Wasn't there one guy with that kind of guts in him? Doesn't this school teach one fuckin' guy to quit when it will do some good? Apparently not. And that is an enormous failure...
...indicted!" His audience, a national convention of Republican women in Los Angeles, erupted in wild applause, cheering and cries of "Right on!," and some even danced on tables. The message, carried nationwide on TV, got across: any reports that the Vice President of the U.S. was about to quit under fire were greatly exaggerated...
...Agnew was going against the spirit of Nixon's own promise, made at the outset of the Watergate investigations, that he would demand the resignation of anyone indicted. Since he, like Nixon, is elected, Agnew could theoretically get away with it, although regardless of his present pledge not to quit, the pressure on him to do so would be overwhelming. If he were convicted and still did not resign ? an unlikely situation ? the House would surely begin impeachment proceedings against...