Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling of frustrated nationalism after World War II accounted for the loss of interest in Parliament and now has forced a situation in which only the menace of violence can prevent executive action. De Gaulle's prestige and his threat to quit if the government is overthrown "holds things down...
...Philippines. His friends let out word that Bohlen would soon come home from Manila to head a State Department policy-planning group dealing with Soviet problems. A later story from unnamed sources in Manila said that "Chip"' Bohlen, 54, eligible for retirement at the maximum allowable pension, would quit the Foreign Service unless he got just such a Washington...
...loneliest ruler in the Middle East when the British troops pulled out in the fall, 23-year-old King Hussein has held his shaky military regime together with his own courage and $50 million from the U.S. Nasser, caught up in a struggle for power with Kassem, has quit his vicious radio attacks on the little King, now talks of resuming relations with Jordan...
Page from Perón. To fire Urrutia with maximum dramatic effect Castro borrowed a trick from another expert demagogue, Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, who once "quit" office to provoke an outburst of public support. The news hit Havana one morning by way of 5½-in. type in Castro's mouthpiece newspaper, Revolución: FIDEL RESIGNS...
...each a month to feed him undercover information. At another company, a switchboard operator intercepted long-distance calls between executives, heard when and where the company planned to buy leases, sold the tips to an outside broker, who grabbed up the leases. In Casper, Wyo., an oil executive quit without turning in his office keys, later was caught fingering through secret maps in another executive's office. The company did not prosecute, but passed around word that made the erring executive as welcome in the industry as Klaus Fuchs at Los Alamos...