Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malenkov meeting might unnecessarily offend Washington. Eden is historically sensitive to Prime Ministers (like Chamberlain in the late '30s) who develop foreign policies over Anthony Eden's head. The dispute was sharp and important: Eden was already getting advice from several of his friends to resign if Churchill went ahead...
...become the forgotten men, while the bloodstained hands of the Communist murderer are clasped in fraternal greeting by our allies in the United Nations Building in New York?" Then he took his position: "On the day that Communist China is voted into membership into the United Nations, I shall resign my majority leadership in the Senate so that ... I can devote my full efforts ... to terminate United States membership in that organization and our financial support...
...They said nothing as they strode through the room to join Diaz and the others, but one of the men slapped his holster significantly. Diaz, with a Tommy gun in his ribs, was unceremoniously escorted to a side door. Monzón reappeared. "My colleague Diaz has decided to resign," he explained suavely. "I am replacing him." That was an authentic change, and Peurifoy energetically set to work arranging for peace talks in San Salvador...
...Sunday morning of this week there were plain signs of defection in the army and the cabinet. Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello called in U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy, sought to see what could be saved, offered to resign. Peurifoy's diplomatic answer was that he would certainly like to see the bloodshed end. He was barely back at his embassy when the phone rang again. It was Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz, chief of the armed forces...
...head of M.I.T. On the day the news broke, scores of students stopped him on campus to shake his hand ("It's nice.'' said he, "but they don't know how it hurts"). In 1949, on doctor's orders, he was forced to resign from the nation's top scientific post. He went back to M.I.T. as chairman of the corporation. "It is as true today," he once told a graduating class, "as it was 2,000 years ago that the basic requirements for the good life are to 'love the Lord...