Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existence of Richard Nixon's tapes, Alexander Butterfield doomed the President. A former White House aide, Butterfield was only truthfully replying to the questions of Senate investigators, but he incurred the enduring hatred of Nixon loyalists, who thought that he should have covered up for his old boss...
Recent visitors to Nixon's Casa Pacifica compound report that his spirits and his health have taken an upturn. Actually, the dwindling staff seems more depressed than the boss. "How much can you walk on the beach?" asked one youthful aide last week. "We have developed a special bond with each other; we depend so much on each other. But it is the bitter life of exile...
Died. Antonin Novotny, 70, former President and Communist Party boss of Czechoslovakia; of a heart attack; in Prague. Named secretary of the Central Committee in 1951, Novotny helped engineer show trials of high-ranking party leaders, which resulted in the execution of, among others, his old friend, Party Boss Rudolf Slansky. Succeeding to power in 1953, he ruled with an iron hand, slavishly aping Moscow policy. Ousted in the "Prague spring" of 1968, Novotny spent his last years cut off from control; his death was marked by a five-line communique from the Central Committee...
...Boss" Tweed, corrupt Tammany chief of the 1860s, raised little objection when muckraking reporters prowled city hall. What the papers wrote had no meaning, Tweed liked to boast; his constituency was illiterate. The only criticism that ever bothered or threatened him, the Boss confessed, was "them damn pictures...
...awesome competition. His novel is a string of craftsmanlike vignettes awash in hyperbole. Emotions are so consistently overwrought that tempestuousness is soon diminished to nagging petulance. Some of the blame may belong to the translation. One Russian greets another with an improbable, hearty "Hallo, Pal" or a "Come on, Boss...