Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual for next-door neighbors to be blood relatives. Second, perhaps because of the close family units, the East Cambridge neighborhood is quiet, with few people in the street. "Kids stay inside doing their homework and the father sits at the head of the table like a boss in command," Vellucci said. "The only pot these kids fool around with is a pot of spaghetti...
...Workers need good communist ideas," said Ken Stills, who represented the Canadian Party of Labor. "A boss is a boss is a boss is a boss...
There was no legal provision for such a move, so Lloyd invited his boss, R.K. Procunier, California Director of Corrections, to audition the Sparrows. Procunier liked them so much he started crying. Since then, Sonny and the Sparrows-a chorus of 45 or more and a 15-man band-have made the rounds of the prisons, taped a television show in Bakersfield, played at high schools and colleges, Air Force bases, conventions, even a county fair...
...World, the publishers sent out a promotional release emphasizing the criticism of the FBI. Two days later, Bass was asked by an FBI friend in Columbia if he could photocopy the book for "Mr. Hoover." Bass agreed, and was soon rewarded by a long, furious letter from FBI Boss J. Edgar Hoover. "The book is so biased in its attempt to smear the FBI," said an angry Hoover, "that it raises serious questions as to the competence and objectivity of the authors." After a rebuttal by Bass, Hoover signed off a second letter with "[Your book] reminds...
...women and children dying," Nasser replied. "We are in a race with death." Later, as Nasser drove to Cairo airport to bid goodbye to Kuwait's Emir Sabah es Salem es Sabah, last of the captains and kings to depart from the summit, Heikal again pleaded with his boss to take a rest...