Word: quit
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McGovern's shift away from Eagleton seemed to be based in part on the verdicts of major U.S. newspapers, most of which-including the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times-called for Eagleton to quit. After a two-day pause for reflection, the New York Times concurred...
Just to make certain that his message got through, McGovern table-hopped during dinner with his family that night at the Sylvan Lake Lodge, moving from one table of reporters to the next. He never said flatly that he wanted Eagleton to quit, but the hints were plain to all present. Next day McGovern even suggested that he had been doubtful all along. After telephoning Eagleton in San Francisco, he announced: "I have insisted and still insist on a proper period of evaluation by both of us on this difficult question." Later, still leaving Eagleton a dangling man, McGovern said...
...seemed a curious way to do business. Why not directly tell Eagleton to quit, rather than send him messages through the headlines? Was McGovern trying to avoid the onus of firing his man? Or was it perhaps that Eagleton was having none of it? Eagleton seemed to suggest as much in his account of a Saturday telephone conversation with McGovern. McGovern, he said, had told him that he "had been under pressure" about Eagleton's candidacy. Yet, Eagleton insisted, three times in the course of the conversation he had wrung from McGovern the phrase "that...
...space agency that they could build the best space shuttle. North American prepared a 16-volume, 4,000-page proposal, as well as three color movies. Some employees worked seven days a week, up to 48 hours in a stretch; the company had a rule that they had to quit by 6 p.m. on Sundays. After winning the contract, North American employees held a marathon champagne party...
...When Mrs. Fannie Jefferies quit her $125-a-week typing job in New York, she decided to begin training as a teacher at Queensborough Community College, and to go on welfare as a needy mother. Three months later, city welfare officials decided that she was not eligible for benefits because her college was not a vocational school. Besides, she could already support herself as a typist. Mrs. Jefferies brought suit, and was joined by three other women in similar circumstances. Federal Judge Charles H. Tenney ruled that "the crucial issue" was whether the federally supported program for needy people included...