Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist prestige was at low ebb in Western Germany. Yet in Düsseldorf last week a grinning, pinch-faced Stalinist with silver-grey hair was carried like a hero on the shoulders of a cheering, surging mob. He was Max Reimann, Communist boss of Western Germany...
Although Li was a respected, energetic man, he was left a sorry legacy and had no policy except to sue for peace with the Reds. The Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung had won the war; he could dictate the terms of peace. What Mao wanted was power to put China in the Communist bloc. That he already had. He could proceed along the path of compromise and coalition certain that, with Chiang's passing, the back of anti-Communist resistance in China had been broken...
...should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
...Aires were true, Don Miguel was really out this time. Recent cabinet meetings, according to these stories, had become very stormy every time economic matters were discussed. Even Miranda's underlings in the Central Bank and at IAPI, his state trading agency, were said to have criticized the boss...
...Wheel. No one knew this better than G.M.'s five division bosses and the man who keeps them pulling together with the purring power of a V-8-President Charles Erwin Wilson. A $236,000-a-year captain of industry, "C.E.," as his friends call him, is a reserved, blue-eyed boss who thinks fast, talks slow and never wastes his time pounding the desk. Slightly jowly, with a pleasant smile, he has neither bombast nor bulk (he is 5 ft. 10 in., 175 lbs.). He talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop...