Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been deserted by many of his onetime friends. He considers himself Watergate's wronged victim rather than its chief villain. He blames the media, his political enemies and bad advice from former aides for his unique role in history as the only U.S. President ever forced to quit...
...memory of a Soviet film featuring pumpkin-like papier-mâché figures in which revolutionaries hid weapons. Lionel Trilling, however, in a new introduction to his Chambers-era roman à clef, The Middle of the Journey, suggests a more bizarre psychological reason: shortly after Chambers quit the Communist Party and emerged from the underground, friends who feared for his life asked him to a Halloween party to establish his public identity and so forestall murder. The memory of this experience may have led Chambers to use a pumpkin in another effort to save himself...
John Baker '72, Radcliffe heavyweight women's crew-coach, quit yesterday after running the Radcliffe crew program for the past three years...
...differences between the two groups were sharply revealed when staffers gathered in a CIA auditorium last spring to watch a videotape of an interview in Canada with former Agent Philip Agee, who quit the agency to write an exposé of the CIA (see BOOKS). After the screening, a lively debate broke out between those who felt that some of Agee's charges were well founded and those who denounced him as a contemptible traitor...
...office, he declared that "with the uncertainty about the time required for a recovery it is in the best interests of the nation that I step aside." Hathaway thus becomes the first Ford Cabinet appointee to step down-and also the shortest-tenured Interior Secretary since Thomas McKennan, who quit his office after eleven days in 1850, citing a "peculiar nervous temperament which too readily responded to excitement and depression...