Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pueblo incident, he proposed that the U.S. give North Korea 24 hours to return the vessel, or "I'd make sure that at least one of her cities would disappear from the face of the earth." His response to Viet Nam: "Retaliation, retaliation, retaliation. They say, 'Quit the bombing.' I say, 'Bomb...
After graduating from law school, Bartels had joined John Lindsay's old Wall Street law firm, but quit after three years. "I was bored," he says. His flight from boredom took him to the office of U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau in New York. In four years there, he says, "I learned the extent of organized crime, the pervasive influence of mobsters." Prodded by his father, a judge in the U.S. District Court for New York's Eastern District, he left Morgenthau in 1968 and went back to private practice. "My father kept telling me I had to grow...
...Israel quit the talks last September in protest against the movement of Soviet-made missiles along the Suez Canal during what was supposed to be a standstill ceasefire. In the 113 days that elapsed before Mrs. Meir announced that her government was ready to resume negotiations, Israel tried to get the U.S., its principal ally, to agree: 1) to institute a long-range program of military aid and economic assistance; and 2) to recant on Secretary of State Rogers' policy that Israel must return to its Arab neighbors all but "insubstantial" pieces of territory captured during...
More and more U.S. colleges have quit mothering students, freeing them to live off campus. The result is a new political-academic stepchild: the "student community." Such incubators of the counterculture raise complex questions for university and town authorities and for the students themselves. The largest and most volatile is Isla Vista, abutting the University of California at Santa Barbara. Last spring, "I.V." erupted in three major riots that produced a burned-out Bank of America branch, one death and nearly 1,000 arrests. Most campuses have been relatively calm lately, but two weeks ago a bomb damaged the roof...
...from Allen Ginsberg. Kennedy did just that. "I pulled out a little harmonium and sang through two choruses," Ginsberg recalls. "He stayed to listen. The 'Hare Krishna' mantra was more important than the whole conversation. So he stood there, and I sang for a minute and then quit." Kennedy was less patient with Poet Robert Lowell's insistent recitation of The Education of Henry Adams-and finally retreated to the toilet. Lowell indignantly recalled the Sun King's lamentable habit of giving audiences from a toilet throne. "If you were Louis XIV, you wouldn...