Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hines, who quit the team two weeks ago along with Roosevelt Cox (also back) and Roland Smart, rejoined the cagers last week, and is challenging for a starting position...
Ford's big shake-up was getting bad press notices. Perhaps the severest cut of all came from Columnist Jerald terHorst, his former press secretary who quit after the President pardoned Richard Nixon. TerHorst wrote that his old boss-and good friend still-has proved too "heavyhanded" in many of his major moves, including the Nixon pardon, the Mayaguez affair and the shakeup. He has acted, terHorst wrote, as though he feared that "anything less than full force might be mistaken as a sign of weakness or timidity. When the man stamps, he stamps hard...
...century; following a stroke; in Albuquerque. A former newspaper reporter and founder of an insurance company, Anderson was serving his third term as a Congressman from New Mexico when Truman, impressed by his detailed report on U.S. food shortages, offered him the Cabinet post; three years later, Anderson quit to make a successful run for the Senate. A member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy from 1951 to 1973, Anderson was a major influence on the development of nuclear power; as head of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee from 1963 until his retirement...
...whatever reasons, personal or otherwise, the fact remains that within the last month or so, (a) the nucleus of the soccer team threatened to quit if Coach George Ford didn't alter his psychological approach to the players, (b) three varsity basketball players quit the team, and (c) last year's five Radcliffe basketball starters walked off the team and refused to play under John McCarthy...
...move followed two weeks of controversy during which five members of the Radcliffe basketball team quit "because they wanted a new coach," Watson said yesterday...