Word: resignment
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...Resign. "! Who? (In the morning's drowsiness I'd perhaps hoped for bigger game.) "Mrs. Slingerland, assistant director...
Well, the "post" she may resign was probably a "shaft" to start with, for it seems she has been fairly powerless all along. Perhaps that's why a threat to resign is so nearly-pathetic. (As an Expos. instructor, I worry that I can't quite find the single word that would sum up just how nearly-pathetic; but "anyone", as the Rev. Berryman puts it, "can teach Expository Writing." Just as anyone perhaps can be assistant director of whatever, provided the right person gives...
...imagine any other "ideas of resigning" crossing some minds that might create more such tremors in the news? "Prof. Heimert May Resign As Dept. Head"? "Bok Wonders If It's Worth It"? "Rosovsky Rues..."? "Buildings and Grounds Chief Quits--Not Enough Lawn Mowers"? ("The last straw" he claims...
...small swing party (62 seats in the 487-member National Assembly) that almost always lines up with Pompidou's U.D.R. (Democratic Union for the Republic). But old-line Gaullists have not forgiven Giscard for urging a non vote in the 1969 referendum that forced De Gaulle to resign. Thus whenever Giscard seems to be flying too high, prominent Gaullists like former Premier Michel Debré start shooting at him. So, occasionally, does Pompidou; there are reports that the President wrote in the margin of Giscard's last anti-inflation program, "Not good enough...
Shortly after the attempted coup. Big Daddy told the Malire mechanized battalion: "If you are unhappy with me, then kill me or make me resign and don't disturb the people at night by running about shooting." The odds are that sooner or later someone will pick up that challenge...