Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with thich they speak of the project. No one wants to blame any of the delays, problems, or missed opportunities on anyone from the other school. One misstep, Harvard fears, and Roxbury faculty will lose all interest in assistance. One disparagement of Harvard efforts, Roxbury fears, and Harvard will quit them...
...threat of war involving all Europe mounted, Eden's dissatisfaction with the way Chamberlain was dealing with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy prompted him to quit the Foreign Ministry, thus jeopardizing a promising political career. "The essence of our actions at home and abroad must be firmness and courage," he said at the time. "All must be ready to defend it." After replacing Chamberlain in 1940, Churchill returned Eden to his old post as Foreign Secretary. At the fateful conferences of Yalta and Potsdam, which set the frontiers of postwar Europe, Eden was always at Churchill's elbow...
...threatened to send "volunteers" to help the Egyptians. Because of international pressure, the invading forces pulled out 21 days later. To escape blistering criticism, Eden, on the ground of ill health, took a three-week vacation in Jamaica; he never recovered, physically or politically. On Jan. 9, 1957, he quit his office and resigned the Commons seat from Warwick and Leamington that he had held since 1923. Harold Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister...
Crises are not new to Brady. A onetime Marine lieutenant, he started out as an advertising writer for Macy's, worked his way up at Fairchild Publications until he was publisher of Women's Wear Daily, then quit to become editorial director and publisher of Harper's Bazaar. There he stirred things up with a new approach to fashion photography that involved action and realism but unfortunately obscured the clothes. Readers objected, and he was fired a year later, in 1972. As a freelancer before joining Murdoch in 1974, Brady wrote for New York and even played...
...California, New West Managing Editor Dick Adler quit in favor of Executive Editor Frank Lalli, but he characterized his staffs mood as "stunned equanimity." The staff of New West, New York's younger twin, had struck briefly the previous week in support of the New Yorkers, but they have decided to stay-in part because they want their magazine to survive and in part because Murdoch's presence is much less immediate. "It's expected that Murdoch will be something of an absentee landlord," says one writer...