Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prospective scientists and doctors should be more reluctant to leave college because they have definite plans for college and will invariably fill skilled positions in the service. Men with degrees in other fields must often resign themselves to routine electrical work rather than be trained for special jobs which they would perform for only two years. Dean Leighton indicated that such men might take military service more profitably at a time when it could help them to order their plans for the future...
Mercer Island divided bitterly over Stenhouse. Three of his four fellow board members called on him to resign. "Personally," he said, "I'd rather resign and crawl into a hole somewhere." Late last month some 250 islanders thronged to a meeting in the Mercer Crest School to discuss the issue. As Stenhouse listened, 38 of his neighbors spoke varying opinions. "Let's rise on our hind legs and throw him out!" cried one. "Our American schools must be kept free of even a suspicion that they may be guided along Communistic lines," said a local veterans' leader...
...president's first impulse was to resign, but the psychologist talked him out of that and persuaded him to begin correcting his executive faults. He scrapped his rule of passing personally on every cost item over $1,000, and let his assistants handle anything up to $20,000. Each executive's job and responsibilities were carefully defined, and each man was given a free hand to run his own department. As a result, they took more interest in their work. The president's desk was magically cleared of all the picayune problems that once piled...
...tobacco smoke, Dickie has returned the town's trust by keeping his convictions to himself as far as possible. However, he promised, "if anything comes along .during my term as mayor that makes me feel I couldn't mix my office with my principles, I will resign...
...Rumania, where the party has had great difficulty in recruiting new members, they smilingly recite this set of enlistment bonuses: those who succeed in recruiting one new member will be excused from attending party meetings; those who recruit two new members will be permitted to resign frohi the party; those who recruit three new members will get a certificate stating they never belonged to the party...