Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went back but she only stayed until midnight. She had to drive the Boss and the President on a tour of the battlefields on the next day. When she left the party was "just shifting into high gear." She thought the President "must be a very sound sleeper as well as a very tolerant father." Kay cornered Mike Reilly, boss of the Secret Service contingent guarding Roosevelt. "Here you are on duty," she chided, "and half of your men are tiddly." Mike replied: "We're tough, Kay. Have...
Prisoner at Versailles. Back in London while the Normandy invasion was on, she watched her boss, "beset by a thousand worries . . . Always the General had Monty gnawing at his nerves . . . As a SHAEF staff member, as part of the official family and as secretary-driver to General Eisenhower I grew to dislike the very name of Montgomery. In my personal opinion, he gave the Supreme Commander more worry than any other one individual in the entire Allied command...
...band of 60 Nazis heading for Versailles to assassinate Ike. Kay apprehensively recounts: "The normal guard was doubled, trebled, quadrupled. The sound of a car exhaust was enough to halt work in every office, to start a flurry of telephone calls to our office to inquire if the Boss were all right." Ike was not allowed to stick his nose outside the compound. Finally he did, grumbling, "Hell's fire, I'm, going out for a walk. If anyone wants to shoot me, he can go right ahead...
...Dmitry Manuilsky (longtime Comintern boss and now Ukrainian delegate to U.N.) "was a type of Russian Communist new to me. What struck me most was his outspoken cynicism . . . [He was] interested only in intrigue and [had] cold contempt for anyone who accepted the Comintern on the basis of its avowed aims and principles...
Klement Gottwald, burly boss of Czechoslovakia, left the stresses & strains of government in Prague for a quiet vacation (of unannounced length) in the friendly Crimea...