Word: boss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson weighed the possible damage to U.S. prestige and to the Alliance for Progress, huddling with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, CIA Boss William Raborn. As the situation grew more alarming by the hour, he snapped: "I will not have another Cuba in the Caribbean." At last orders went out to Task Force 124, centered on the aircraft carrier Boxer and with 1,800 combat-ready marines, to make flank speed for Santo Domingo. Another set of orders started the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, N.C., toward its C124 and C-130 transports...
Moreover, Russia is now presented with the perfect opportunity to prove that it is still boss in the Communist world. "While China only speaks loudly but can do very little, it is the Soviet Union who in actuality carries the big stick and is willing to use it on behalf of another Communist nation. In the end, the monolithic character of the Communist camp would be restored under the auspices of the Soviet Union. We are moving closer to that military confrontation which nobody wants but which nobody knows how to avoid...
...propaganda boss, Murrow proved an able administrator who insisted on playing every story straight for the rest of the world. Then, in 1964, he was forced to resign after a cancerous left lung was removed. Ever since he had gone into broadcasting Murrow had smoked from 60 to 70 cigarettes a day. "I doubt very much that I could spend half an hour without a cigarette with any comfort or ease," he once declared after narrating a program linking cigarettes to cancer...
...American Tragedy, published in 1926, established him as everybody's hero. The story of a naive young man in a hurry who murders his pregnant mistress so he can marry the boss's daughter, it was acclaimed by Joseph Wood Krutch as "the greatest American novel of our generation." Within a year it made Dreiser $40,000 in royalties and $80,000 in film rights...
After all, Al Vellucci is nothing more than the old ward "boss." Most civic texts frown on bosses. The boss, the theory runs, sacrifices the general interest to the very particular needs of his own district. And there is al- ways, the implication that the "boss" or the machine is easily corrupted...