Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moynihan has be] come an American pop hero. He has also riled many African and Arab leaders, and lately some of the U.S.'s European allies, who feel that his unguided missives against the Third World are reaching overkill proportions. But Ford could hardly have allowed Moynihan to quit. It would have opened the President to new criticism from Ronald Reagan's direction, and from others, both left and right, who feel that the U.S. has taken too much Third World abuse. Moreover, it could have been seen as a retreat from Moynihan's impassioned defense...
...recalling Henry Kissinger's own resignation threat in Austria last year when wiretapping accusations burst around him, left the Ford Administration with another wound. The President's inability to absorb one more high-level departure was exposed. Moynihan's own reputation was reduced; his threat to quit was seen as a temper tantrum with an aroma of vanity. Kissinger's authority was eroded too, since Moynihan went over his head to the President and won Ford's public backing...
Then, in another turnaround, on November 12 of this year, Hines quit the squad. (In an apparently unrelated move, sophomores Roosevelt Cox and Roland Smart also left the team.) At the time, Hines refused to comment on the matter. Now he is willing to say the conflict between his life on and off the court had become too great. He felt he was cheating himself in both his athletic and academic pursuits. When the crunch came, Hines decided to take the off-court life more seriously...
What about the future? Hines seems to have momentarily reconciled the conflicting tensions that led him to quit the team in November. "I'm going to try it this year," he promised. But he is leaving the door open for the more distant future. Hines said he wants to go on to graduate school, and he's involved in clubs and other non-athletic ventures which consume a fair share of his time...
...Crimson's credit, however, the cagers, as might have been the case in past years, refused to quit, and showed occassional signs of resurgence as the contest wore...