Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNamara attempted, for instance, to reduce by half the $1 billion military-pay increase voted by Congress. From the greenest recruit to the most bemedaled general, from the swampy boondocks of Viet Nam to the carpeted offices of the Pentagon, this stand brought the complaint among servicemen that their boss was not behind them. In 1963 and 1964, for economy reasons, McNamara also held down the Army's program to strengthen its helicopter force; now there is a crash drive on to form new helicopter units. Most serious of all-considering McNamara's reputation as an administrator...
...invitation was gratefully accepted, but the gesture to the hated Germans left Poland's Communist regime sputtering with rage. Just how seriously Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka was taking it became clear last week when the government refused to allow Cardinal Wyszynski to leave Poland for a trip to Rome. The reason, explained an officer, was that on his last trip there the Cardinal had engaged in political activity harmful to Poland...
Early last year, when Communist union leaders resisted his reforms for Bolivia's notoriously inefficient tin mines, Barrientos slapped the mines under military control, ordered troops into troubled areas and exiled 200 union leaders, including Union Boss Juan Lechin. After a bloody series of battles that left 102 dead and 350 wounded, the miners finally gave in. Helped along by a high tin market, the mines moved from under a $3,000,000 deficit in the first five months of last year to a net year-end profit of some $2,000,000-their first year in the black...
...calling a strike. He had held up a walkout against the private bus lines for a month so it would coincide with the one against the T.A. Because Lindsay was trying to change the old system of negotiations, Quill was out to show the new mayor "who was boss." He broke off negotiations several hours before the deadline, and later refused Lindsay's offer to stop the strike and make all settlements retroactive...
...already difficult situation was further complicated by a personality clash between Lindsay and Quill. There is more to the rift than Quill's name-calling and Lindsay's condesending words to Quill. One source believes that Quill was out to show Lindsay "who was boss," possibly because the new mayor was altering the traditional methods of negotiation between the city and the union...