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Word: boss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and his coruler, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, obviously decided that the summit, for all its perils, was worth the gamble. In the complicated mystique of Communism, the right of the Soviet leaders to rule, in their empire and at home, is intimately linked to their ability to command the obedience and fealty of Communists abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COMMUNISM: A HOUSE DIVIDED, A FAITH FRAGMENTED | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...Small Bosses. "We don't have any criminals in the North yet," he says. "These are kids. I think of myself as bringing the presence of the law into these places, and I try to sit down and explain to these people whenever possible. What I'm doing is teaching civics." It is not easy. For a start, none of the Eskimo dialects have a precise translation of the words guilty and innocent. Judge comes out as "one who listens" or, more simply, "boss." In the unusual cases when there is also a six-man jury, the arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Riding the Arctic Circuit | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

Thus two men, at least, were out: Charles Rhyne, former American Bar Association president, a Nixon classmate at Duke law school and a personal friend, and Attorney General John Mitchell, the 1968 campaign manager. A third, Herbert Brownell, Eisenhower's Attorney General?and Burger's boss for three years in the Justice Department in the early '50s?withdrew of his own accord because he thought his former job would raise opposition in the Senate. A fourth, Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee to the court, took himself out because he thought that elevation of an Associate Justice would create friction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A PROFESSIONAL FOR THE HIGH COURT | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...Johnson (Bert Convy) is a classic of his breed, a red-hot superscooper. Suddenly he threatens to do the unthinkable. He tells the boys in the city room that he is going to get married, desert his raffish calling and go square in a New York advertising firm. His boss, Walter Burns (Robert Ryan), the managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, dresses like an Edwardian dandy and has the ethics of Genghis Khan. There is no device that he will not employ to hang on to his ace reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revivals: Stop the Presses! | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...outside Verona, a Renaissance palazzo set among stately cypresses and broad formal gardens that he has studded with his own works. There, the couple entertains some of the top sculptors of Europe, who seek out Berrocal's foundry for expert casting and professional guidance. "I'm the boss of the Mafia of sculptors," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Take Apart and Look Again | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

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