Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Always His. The pithies and pungents that have kept Agnew on the Nixon bridge are largely his own. Mrs. Cynthia Rosenwald, a Baltimorean who wrote the drafts of many Agnew speeches until she quit recently for family reasons, says modestly and accurately: "I did the part where the audience went to sleep. The really great lines were always his." Agnew, who sometimes uses speeches written by the White House staff, acquired a new speechwriter last week. He is Johann C. Helms, 29, a recent Harvard Ph.D. who gained national attention last summer when he blistered Harvard's treatment...
...their own police, and Jordanian police are powerless to do anything but go along with them. Hussein, in a postbattle press conference last week in the royal cinema of his Basman Palace in Amman, vowed that he would not abdicate. "I am not the type of person who can quit," he said. "This nation is part of me and I am part of it." But the King rules at the pleasure of the fedayeen, and his throne rests on the will of Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat as much as anything...
...with skyrocketing costs, retarding faculty growth at many schools, and forcing some to cut their staffs. It is true that junior colleges and even high schools may benefit by landing jobless Ph.D.s. But many of the best men will not accept lower salaries or lesser schools. Some Ph.D.s may quit teaching...
...good players were returning from the 1956 team, injuries and dissatisfaction had caused some squad members to quit the squad, and Yovicsin had a mere 33 men on his bench on opening day against Cornell. The biggest thrill of the season was a near-upset over Princeton...
Lack of a quarterback was one of the main explanations for 1969's 3-6 record, which has east such a shadow over the end of Yovicsin's career. Frank Champi, the star of the 1968 Yale game, just didn't come through in 1969, and then he quit...