Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name from consideration, and Paterson was elected. It had been George McGovern's turn to feel the force of the New Politics. The incident may have been a mild caution for the nominee. As James H. Rowe, an old professional from the F.D.R. days, observed: "The old bulls never quit until the young bulls run them out. The old bulls
...take the new Congressman long to learn that he had only three unhappy choices in the House of Representatives: 1) "play the game and be one of the boys," hoping to accumulate power gradually; 2) quit and try to influence policy through administrative jobs at federal, state or city levels back home; 3) stay and fight outside "established traditional paths." Riegle chose the third, even though, as he concedes, he became "an outsider" as a result, with his long-term political career and immediate re-election in doubt. "If the country is in jeopardy," he says...
There is a new face behind the telephone on John Mitchell's old desk at the Washington offices of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Replacing Mitchell, who quit suddenly at the demand of Wife Martha, is Clark MacGregor, 50, an affable former Minnesota Congressman who for the past 19 months has been in charge of President Nixon's relations with the Hill...
...voter appeal, from his hoarse baritone to his bumper-sticker name (which literally means "Sharp Prosperity Amid Paddies"). Tanaka was born in a rice-belt village, in Niigata prefecture, the son of a horse trader who had a financially fatal weakness for gambling. At 16, young Tanaka quit school and lit out for Tokyo, where for three years he ran errands for a contractor by day and studied the construction business by night. Tanaka's budding business career was briefly sidetracked when the Imperial Army drafted him and sent him to Manchuria. But he contracted pneumonia and was discharged...
With minimum fuss she quit her job as a psychologist, bought a sloop called Aziz and, last year, made the trip from Wales to Newport, R.I., in 45 days. She was only the third woman to try, the second to succeed...