Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midafternoon, with some 20 people already dead, Ngo Dinh Diem still held out in his barricaded palace. Emissaries shuttled back and forth between the two sides. Diem offered to fire his Cabinet but refused the rebel demand that he resign. Diem's stubborn courage began to pay off. Marine, infantry and commando units moved into the city and, after wavering all night, declared their loyalty to him. Outmanned, the paratroopers fled. When a throng of civilians advanced on the palace waving "Diem Must Go" signs, the pro-Diem marines fired point-blank into the packed crowd, killing at least...
...driven his law partner, Harold Gray, to a tavern, where Holzapfel was waiting. The partner was given a brutal beating but survived. The motive, police charged, was a $100,000 insurance policy on Gray's life. After years of trials, the case was dropped when Peel agreed to resign from...
...insisted that the charges brought against him were false, but his claims were ignored. Then last August a government official, brought to court for misconduct in another matter, unexpectedly volunteered that "on orders from above," he perjured himself and forged the evidence on which Lavon was compelled to resign five years...
...deep-rooted psychosexual conflict. Linden's stark conclusion: "The situation may be resolved if the woman patient can be restored to a truly feminine position. This would be the task of psychoanalysis. But even the most intense therapy may not be wholly successful, and many women must resign themselves to a less-than-satisfying marriage, for social reasons...
...commercial publishing venture, National Review magazine is a dud. In its brief history, it has spent some $860,000 more than it has taken in. Its founder, Editor in Chief William F. Buckley Jr., 34, works for nothing, says that he had to resign from the Yale Club for "economic reasons." But by Bill Buckley's lights, National Review is nonetheless a spanking success: it has become the most notable U.S. periodical speaking for the far political right...