Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marriage, they feud incessantly with the four children of the second marriage, seems to have inherited some of his father's traits. Like H.L., Bunker is a zealot for far-right causes. He is on the national council of the John Birch Society and is said to have angrily quit the University of Texas after one semester because one of his professors suggested that the Government should control all natural resources. Like H.L., Bunker has a penchant for controversy; he is almost constantly enmeshed in lawsuits. In 1975 Bunker and his brother Herbert were tried in federal court on charges...
Rehearsing Snafus. Before T.M.I., operators practiced handling emergencies on computer-driven simulators, but the training concentrated on one mishap at a time. At T.M.I., problems occurred in rapid succession: pumps quit, a valve...
...former Indiana University superswimmer did not quit; he kept swimming and that summer joined the great Duke Kahanamoko, as the only American swimmers to go to three Olympics...
...used to follow the progress of the top AAU swimmers in the country, but after a time I found my own times outdistanced by the men and then finally in the middle of the pack for the women. I decided then it was time to quit paying such close attention to that and worry more about my own swimmers," he said recently...
...Bush was Republican national chairman as Watergate rose against Nixon, and Bush rekindled concerns about his propensity for hyperdeliberation. Why did he not distance the G.O.P. from Nixon? If he could not do that, then why did he not quit? His answer was like those of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and White House Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig. Bush stayed to preserve some order as the House of Nixon collapsed. Nixon's guilt had not been proved in court, nor had he been impeached. Bush tiptoed once more: mannered, thoughtful, searching for a civilized route through anarchy...