Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich man's game. Even running for a modest office like, for instance, Congressman from the First District in Utah, requires at least $70,000; in a few hotly contested urban constituencies, the cost of running a successful campaign would boggle the mind of an old-fashioned Tammany boss. When it comes to a major campaign for Senator or Governor, let alone President, the cash required would have stunned even so peerless a fund raiser of a generation or two ago as James Aloysius Farley...
...Nasser figured that he ought to have a Vice President and swore Sadat in on the spot. Less than ten months later, the man who had announced the success of Nasser's 1952 revolution was called upon to tell the Egyptian people that their beloved El Rais (The Boss) was dead. Shortly afterward, Sadat was sworn in as the third President in Egypt's history...
...ardent health faddist who used to do rigorous daily exercises and still quaffs great quantities of a carrot-colored health drink. But for some time he has been unable to put in a full ten-hour day at his desk. He departed more gracefully than any East bloc party boss so far. He was able to hand-pick a successor whose views are as hard-line...
Hilliard's appointment is popular with his all-white editorial staff of 133. His colleagues are convinced that competence, not color, won him the job, in which he is unchallenged boss of the newsroom. "We simply appointed a city editor," says an Oregonian staffer. "Not a black city editor. Just the best...
...Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Royko (7) 7. The Grandees, Birmingham (5) 8. The European Discovery of America...