Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thomas John Cardell Martyn, 41, a spirited little Britisher whom the New York Times employed for six years in its editorial department, left the Times last year to write a prospectus, raise money, start a magazine. Samuel Thurston Williamson, 16 years with the Times and once its Washington correspondent, quit his job to join Publisher Martyn as editor. Last week they presented their product, News-Week, written & edited in Manhattan, printed in Dayton, Ohio. Their advertisements said: "It marshals facts against their background, throws revealing light into obscure situations-helps you understand the news . . . NEWSWEEK is today with enough...
...Spiro Agnew so dramatically and abruptly decided to quit? "Because everything he tried flopped," one high-ranking Justice official declares flatly. Indeed, Agnew had tried a lot of things. He had asked the House of Representatives to investigate the charges against him, only to have Speaker Carl Albert send him back to the courts for justice. He had tried to kill the grand jury investigation into his misdeeds by arguing that a sitting Vice President could not be indicted...
...accept a ceasefire. Others speculated that Gemayel had for a time been so impressed with the ability of his army that he thought it was now strong enough to push back the Druze, Syrian and Palestinian forces in the Chouf. According to this theory, cooler heads persuaded him to quit while he was ahead, or at least even...
...child, fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews in Belgium. His father David worked in a Manhattan burlap-bag factory to put Rich through the private Rhodes School, where he earned a B-minus average and presided over the French club. An indifferent student at New York University, Rich quit to pursue commodities trading for the Philipp Bros. firm...
...Pope was shot, the producers of "Good Morning, America" said, "'Arthur, three minutes on the legal status of the Vatican.' You know you're not going to get six minutes," he says, "so either you reconcile yourself to the fact and do three, or you don't and quit...