Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September night in the last days of a frantic pennant race and Yankee Manager Billy Martin tossed in his bed, looking for ways to get even with his boss. For a moment, still thinking like the street fighter he used to be, he had a drastic idea. He would walk right up to Owner George Steinbrenner, insult him and goad the boss into striking him. Too wild, he decided. If only Steinbrenner would stop sending those foolish statistics down to the dugout during the game, stop pushing him so hard to discipline the players. Discipline, Martin thought...
...halftime tie was broken six minutes into the second half on a score from Kellog, who was making her first varsity start. McCune got the assist as her shot from the circle was stuffed through the Princeton goalie's legs by the charging Kellog, who like Tammany Hall boss George Washington Plunkett, saw her opportunities and took...
...three, only Ehrlichman came close to spelling out how he had erred. In his own letter to Sirica last June, Ehrlichman said, without ever mentioning his former boss by name: "I permitted myself to be used." Added Ehrlichman in his taped remarks: "I abdicated my moral judgments and turned them over to someone else." He spoke of "an exaggerated sense of my obligation to do as I was bidden," and warned present and future White House aides to be on the alert for "red flags" of moral dilemmas that may arise while serving a President. Finally, Ehrlichman confessed: "I wasn...
...their part, the gangsters still seek to defend themselves as a traditional part of society. Speaking last week in the outskirts of Kobe under the eyes of police guards, one local gang boss out on bail defiantly described the yakuza as "lotus flowers on a sea of mud." Said he: "We're flotsam of society, but we're dedicated to our own code of honor at the cost of our own lives. If I as a boss didn't control my boys, the city would be worse off-call us a necessary social evil." Increasingly, it appears...
...Crimson, like the Big Bad Green, is undefeated in the Ivy loop, and while today's game would be a knock-'em-out, show-'em-who's-boss affair if the two combatants were 0-4, their undefeated status adds legitimacy to the war that is sure to result...