Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate transgressions...
...know uncertainty. His ideas are utterly simplistic: it was President Carter who surrendered Nicaragua to the Sandinistas. Carter also prepared to turn over El Salvador to Communism, but "we stopped the conspiracy in its tracks." At the time, the major was an intelligence officer, and he claims he quit so he could "denounce the Communist plot." According to his adversaries, when he left the army he took with him the intelligence archives. Many people whom he accused of subversive activities, like Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, were later assassinated by the death squads...
...Hoge, 48, sought to increase his stake in the rivalry last year when the Sun-Times (circ. 639,000) was offered for sale, and he led an investor group that bid $63 million. The price was topped, however, by Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, and a disheartened Hoge quit the paper in January. Last week he crossed his former battle lines: in April he will become publisher of the New York Daily News (circ. 1.4 million), which is owned by the Chicago-based Tribune Co. The paper is locked in its own war, this one with the New York Post...
...everything but get down on my knees, pleading with them not to bring this before the congregation," Guinn told the court. "I'm not saying I wasn't guilty. I was. But it was none of their business." She quit the church to prevent the action, but the elders read the announcement anyway, contending that she would remain a member until they expelled her. Last week Guinn's lawyer, Thomas Frasier, likened the church's action to the public branding of the adulteress Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Said Frasier...
...organic chemistry in eight weeks at Harvard summer school was a lot like eating that pizza. Although it seemed like a great idea beforehand, it was excruciating to choke down. But after my stomach had settled, there was a goofy sense of accomplishment. And much as I wanted to quit during the middle, it wasn't ever a realistic option...