Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither Shultz nor Stein plans to become active in the Administration's public relations campaign to sell the program to the nation, and they may decide to quit before long. Shultz, a highly moral man, is also depressed over the Watergate morass. Likewise, former Treasury Secretary John Connally, who urged Nixon to act but apparently felt left out of the inner circle, will quit his vaguely defined Administration...
...landed a job at $2.75 an hour digging ditches for sewers and water lines. It was exhausting work-"How many times," he asked himself, "had I read of men in their fifties dying while shoveling snow?"-but he stuck to it for two weeks. Then he had to quit in order to attend a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, of which he is chairman. "It was unreal," he recalls...
Inured as they were to constantly recurring rumors that El Caudillo was ailing or senile or about to quit, Spaniards were nonetheless taken unawares...
...even inaccurate scuttlebutt may convey a psychological truth, because many rumors are "symbolic expressions of feelings." "If rumor says that Joe is quitting, this may mean that his associates wish he would quit," or it may reflect a general-but sometimes unconscious-awareness that Joe desperately wishes he could quit...
...adherence of both sides to the truce. The Hungarian and Polish commission members, who consider themselves Hanoi's representatives, have employed dilatory and obstructionist tactics to prevent the Canadian and Indonesian members from investigating reported truce violations. Last week External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp announced that Canada would quit the paralyzed, dissension-torn ICCS at the end of July. A high-ranking Canadian official privately explained that his government was tired of trying "to supervise a peace that is kept by neither side...