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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although issues like Watergate, TV advertising and wiretapping are important, they are not crucial. It is high time that Congress quit politicking and devoted its time and energies to crucial issues such as control of inflation and a better, more balanced budget; these questions concern every intelligent citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 7, 1973 | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

Wills alone gained an instant obscurity from the episode. He received a pro forma letter of commendation and a $5-a-week raise. He was also sufficiently unnerved by the event that he quit his job. Now he is back on the beat again in another Washington building, making $85 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Forgotten Man | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...paper burning, several high FBI officials went to the office of the bureau's No. 2 man, W. Mark Felt, and said: "If you don't tell Gray to get out of the building, we will." Later, several assistant FBI directors confronted Gray, telling him he must quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: New Shocks--and More to Come | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...Johnston goes, the Bruins will be left with only rookies John Adams and Ross Brooks to play in the nets. A possible replacement is former Bruin Bernie Parent, who recently quit as goaltender for the Philadelphia Blazers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruins Lose Plante to Quebec | 5/3/1973 | See Source »

...post to become unsalaried president of the National Alliance of Businessmen, a group active in minority job placement and training. So far as can be determined, he did not lose a backstage power fight. Instead, he committed the most startling of all his breaks with G.M. tradition: he simply quit because he grew dissatisfied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTIVES: G.M. Loses a Swinger | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

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