Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be badly, maybe fatally scarred by his snapping rivals. The pile-up of names on the ballot gave an unforeseen boost to George Wallace, who won in Florida because the vote was split so many ways. Wallace might be contained if some of the liberal or centrist candidates quit the race. But on the eve of Wisconsin, only Vance Hartke, after getting 3% of the vote in New Hampshire and .3% in Florida, has had the grace to get out of a contest he never had a chance of winning...
...Anderson walked unannounced into Drew Pearson's Washington office. For the next 22 years he was Pearson's low-paid (never more than $14,000 a year) legman and for a while was anonymous as well. In 1957 he threatened to quit; Pearson held him by promising more bylines and eventual inheritance of the column...
Hamburg education officials refuse to cancel the contracts-or to pay the disgruntled teachers' fare home. Even so, 16 of the Americans have quit, and as many more say they would do so if they could find jobs in the U.S. Says Gulp: "I never thought that an administrative screw-up of such proportions was possible...
...another occasion, a young woman had been working undercover to investigate a firm that sold children's books from door to door. The day she quit, the company's owner barged furiously into her apartment building and pounded on her locked door for nearly an hour, while she stood inside, hardly daring to breathe. Finally a neighbor called the police, and the man left...
...Expect a miracle," Faith Healer Oral Roberts exhorts his TV congregations, and he practices what he preaches. When he quit the gospel big top to build himself a university (TIME, Feb. 7), Roberts set his heart on a national basketball championship. Lo, last week there was Oral Roberts University in the quarter-finals of the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. During the game between O.R.U. and St. John's University, St. John's star Mel Davis had to be carried off the courts with torn tendons in his right knee. Good Samaritan Roberts...