Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, the Bobby boom seems incomprehensible. Robert Kennedy, the ruthless kid brother, the vindictive Senate investigator of the 1950s who made no secret of his admiration for his onetime boss, the late Joe McCarthy, the heavy-handed hatchet man of 1960 who ran Jack Kennedy's campaign the way Captain Ahab ran the Pequod, the glowering, omnipresent Attorney General who always seemed to be under fire-Robert Kennedy upstaging the greatest vote getter of them...
Nearly two decades ago, seven men stepped hopelessly from a van in the red brick forecourt of Berlin's Spandau Prison. They were the senior survivors of the 22 Nazis brought to trial for major war crimes at Nürnberg. Their compatriots in crime-among them Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Göring and Wehrmacht Chief Wilhelrn Keitel-had escaped imprisonment by either suicide or the noose...
...finally settled; the stereotypers were scheduled to vote approval of their contract at week's end. The long-deferred New York World Journal Tribune was actually getting ready to put out a newspaper, and Conniff's phone rang constantly. Columnist after columnist wanted to ask his new boss for the honor of appearing in the first issue...
Pursuing fresh Balkan ties, Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu made a point of taking his vacation in Bulgaria in July, bringing to six the number of top-level visits between the two nations this year. Long-independent Red Yugoslavia, not to be left out, has sent Premier Peter Stambolic on a working holiday to Bulgaria, and has docketed him for Greece in October. The Bulgarian Foreign Minister meanwhile has gone to Turkey, which Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer visited last month. And last week, in the first visit to the Aegean kingdom ever made by a Communist Premier, Maurer flew...
...clear that Khrushchev wouldn't have lifted a finger to help Nixon get elected dogcatcher. The Communist boss described Nixon as "an intellectually limited" man who "produces the impression of a slightly fraudulent, petty storekeeper, capable of selling tainted herring or representing kerosene-soaked sugar as good merchandise." (The statement was made some time before Khrushchev himself came to be regarded by his own associates as a handy fellow with a tainted herring...