Word: quit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Foster says she quit the Salient after her first year in part because the staff, comprised mostly of white males, often took "ultra-conservative" stances on social issues, including race relations...
...cold war in the 1950s and '60s. Popularity evidently wasn't high on Joseph Rotblat's list, though. The Polish-born British physicist was helping the U.S. develop the first A-bomb when he concluded that Nazi Germany was never going to build its own. So he quit his job with the Manhattan Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then, in 1955, Rotblat joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and six other scientists in signing a manifesto that led to the founding...
...join the American A-bomb effort, his doubts deepened almost at once. When he heard U.S. General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's supervisor, say that the real reason for continuing was to keep the Russians in line after the war, Rotblat was "deeply shocked." When he quit, "I was accused of being a spy, and left only after agreeing not to talk to anybody about my reason for leaving...
...every day. Important as the Pugwash organization is to him, it is only a part of his arms-reduction work. He is also on the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Despite having won the ultimate recognition of the Nobel, he is hardly ready to quit. Says Rotblat: "I see this honor not for me personally, but rather for the small group of scientists who have been working for 40 years to try to save the world, often against the world's wish...
California Governor Pete Wilson, the first Republican presidential candidate to quit the race, today endorsed Bob Dole for the job he coveted. TIME Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante reports: "The endorsement will be of limited value from a political perspective because Wilson is viewed by Californians as a failed candidate. But from a fundraising point of view, it is pivotal for Dole. With Wilson's support, he can pre-empt the gold rush into the state by the other candidates and sew up the funds for himself. He and Wilson have even talked about joint fundraisers. Dole will raise...