Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Official I.R.A. raised Ulster terror to a new dimension. At week's end, an I.R.A. murder squad pumped six submachine-gun bullets into John Taylor, 34, Northern Ireland's Minister of State for Home Affairs, as he started to drive home in Armagh. Taylor, who is boss of Ulster's security forces, was the first victim of a deliberate political assassination attempt. Though he was hit in the jaw, throat, chest and hand, Taylor survived after two emergency operations. But the murder attempt, less than a month after Bloody Sunday and three days after Bloody Tuesday, indicated...
Servants usually know their masters, someone once observed, but masters seldom know their servants. The thesis has been overwhelmingly proved during the past six weeks in Rhodesia, where the white man is customarily called "boss" and the black man "boy." Since early January, a commission of British investigators headed by Lord Pearce, a noted jurist, has been canvassing the country to test the acceptability of Britain's proposed agreement with Prime Minister Ian Smith's white regime. The agreement would give the blacks, who outnumber the whites 22 to 1, a faint hope of coming to power...
Czechoslovak Party Boss Gustav Husák could hardly have been more emphatic. In response to a question by a visiting French Communist about reprisals against onetime followers of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček, Husák declared: "There is and will be no trial and no arrest for political activities in 1968 and 1969, and there is and will be no trial or arrest for opinions held. Socialist legality will be scrupulously respected...
...senior economic forecaster, says flatly that "a 4% unemployment rate as a national goal is not feasible without significant inflation." Liebling figures that a 5% rate "might represent the maximum benefit from cyclical expansion without unleashing unwanted inflationary repercussions." When the paper leaked last week, Liebling's boss, Treasury Secretary John Connally, went before the congressional Joint Economic Committee and dismissed it as merely a working paper. But Connally has admitted publicly that 5% unemployment "is probably the best we can do this year without further throwing the economy out of kilter...
Scofield is at his most dexterous in Bartleby, bringing extraordinary wit to the rather dreary role of a beleaguered office boss (no name given). The film is adapted from Herman Melville's story Bartleby the Scrivener. Bartleby (John McEnery) is a kind of saintly madman, an almost ghostly figure employed (as the movie has it) as an accountant in Scofield's office...