Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...races and were, in large part, the result of having exceptionally attractive young candidates. In Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...
...been to." Alas, Fowler felt constrained to sit out the frugs and watusis. Remember those undignified pictures they took last February when he did a warm frug at a party with Carol Channing? "I'm just like Lindbergh," sighed Fowler. "Made one flight, became famous and quit...
...divorced woman's alimony slops when she remarries-and does not revive even if her new marriage turns out to be a nullity. New Yorker Harry Herscher happily quit paying his ex-wife Alice $125 a week when he discovered that she had been remarried for 68 weeks. Alice reclaimed alimony on a compelling ground: her second husband had not been divorced from a previous wife and her second marriage was void. Too bad, ruled New York Civil Court Judge Sidney H. Asch. Since Alice "intended to abrogate her right to support" when she remarried, Harry...
...Bonn. They knew that they had been summoned to watch as Erhard's enemies tightened the pressure on him to resign. But no one knew whether the Chancellor would turn with a roar on his tormentors or go along with those who had been gently urging him to quit...
...challenged by one of the paper's founders, Norman Mailer, who thought the Voice was becoming too square. Mailer also suspected that Wolf was using typos to sabotage his column defending the hip way of life. When his phrase "nuances of growth" came out "nuisances of growth," Mailer quit the paper in a rage. The Voice's coverage of big local stories is often more balanced and thoughtful than the reporting in the dailies. The paper's criticism of the arts is also a match for the other city papers, though Film Critic Jonas Mekas tends...