Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told the nurse not to care for it and to await his arrival. The hospital's chief pediatrician, Dr. Ronald Cornelsen, said he saw Waddill strangle the infant: "I saw him press down on the baby's neck. He said, 'This baby won't quit breathing...
...Cardinals tried to trade Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1969, he filed a suit challenging baseball's reserve system. Said he: "I am a man, not a consignment of goods to be bought and sold." The Supreme Court upheld the reserve system, and an angry Flood quit baseball, drifting around the world, tending his own bar on the Spanish island of Majorca and painting portraits for $350 and up. Now that baseball players are free at last, Flood, 40, has returned to the game as a radio broadcaster for the Oakland...
Powell should have quit while he was behind. He tried a tasteless crack about a William Safire column "saying that Bob Strauss has been inflation czar for three days and nothing was any cheaper. Bob said that wasn't true," reported Powell, who went on to quote Strauss as asking: "What about the Pulitzer Prize?" (Safire had just won one.) "I like that, Jody," one listener shot back, and Powell riposted bitterly: "Well, then, that's the first thing this Administration has done that you've liked." Powell also mock apologized for attacking what he called...
What finally forced Nixon to quit was the hard evidence that only six days after the Watergate burglary, he was already deeply involved in the coverup. This became clear when he was forced to release the White House tape of a meeting that he had with Haldeman on June 23, 1972. The "smoking gun" revelation came out in the fateful summer of 1974, and Nixon writes of the events of Friday, August 2: "I decided instead of resigning on Monday night, I would release the June 23 tape and see the reaction...
Quebec politicians described Sun Life's move as "economic blackmail"; the federal government protested it would hurt "national unity." Still, some small companies have already quit Quebec entirely, and many big firms, including the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, Northern Telecom Ltd. and the Royal Trust Co., have simply moved key departments. As long as managers worry about the possibility, however remote, of one day waking up to find themselves marooned in a small nation, some will continue to flee...