Word: quit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instance, Jack put the FBI on the trail of another young woman who worked for Hays a few years ago. Interviewed by FBI agents, she said that she got on the congressional payroll only after consenting to have sex with Hays several times a week. She quit when Hays suggested lunchtime copulation on his desk top. This source has also told investigators that Hays and other members of Congress cooperated in putting potentially embarrassing employees on each other's staffs. The clear implication: a few lawmakers were engaged in mutual back scratching to cover up payroll padding...
...Another cozy arrangement came to light when Colleen Gardner, 30, decided to tell much, if not all. A former secretary to Congressman John Young, 59, a Texas Democrat, Gardner claims that she received large pay raises-her salary had gone from $8,500 to nearly $26,000 when she quit in March-on condition that she sleep with the boss. She was also friendly with a few of Young's friends. Unlike Ray, Gardner is a qualified and apparently conscientious office worker. In a New York Times interview she said: "It wouldn't have been so bad going...
...week's end the beleaguered Albert announced that he will quit at the end of his present term. "During my early years in the House, I decided I should not serve beyond my 70th year," said Albert, 68. "That is long enough...
...Base. London apparently agreed to such harsh terms mainly because it was under pressure from the U.S. and Norway, which feared that Iceland would make good on its threat to quit NATO if the 200-mile zone was not respected. That could have denied the alliance the key Keflavik base from which Soviet surface and submarine naval activity has been monitored. London now hopes that when the new treaty expires in six months, the Common Market, as a bloc, will negotiate new terms with Iceland that will enable Britain to increase its harvest of Icelandic...
...remember sleepin' in bars.") The roving life also got him what he calls "messed up on dope." Then came a day of revelation: "I had a vision one night. I saw Hell. I fell on the floor and completely freaked out. That's when I quit...