Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brash, impulsive go-getter who won international acclaim last month for his near-faultless performance as State Minister in charge of the Olympic Games, Kono loves to be called "oya-bun," the admiring title given to the most ruthless gangster lords in feudal Japan. Today, it symbolizes a political boss who inspires unswerving loyalty and obedience in his supporters...
Preaching Hatred. The warning rumbles have been growing ever since the May election in which Paz won another four-year term over the bitter opposition of two erstwhile allies: former President Hernán Siles Zuazo, 50, and Juan Lechin, 51, leftist boss of Bolivia's tin miners. Siles has been packed off to exile in Uruguay. But Lechin is still around, preaching hatred and focusing Paz's opposition...
...Chuck Percy's luck finally ran out. He had accused Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner of being a stooge of Chicago Boss Richard Daley. So Daley went right ahead to deliver Chi- cago, where Negro voter registration was up by 31,000 to 346,000. More- over, the incredibly complex Illinois bal lot encouraged straight-ticket voting as President Johnson won the state over- whelmingly. As a result, moderate Re publicans lost one of the highly touted comers they had depended on to help rebuild a tattered party. >Roger Branigin, 62, a prosperous Indiana corporation and utilities attorney...
...equipped with wife, four children, a black Porsche sports car, a worn set of Shakespeare, an Egyptian statue, a dagger that had been used in a Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already given warning of the prodigy he was sending west: "Manning is one of the shiniest fish ever to come out of the sea. He has the drive, charm and quickness to do anything...
...been inexplicably absent. Kennedy's very entrance into the race was awkwardly handled. Only after he had been publicly eliminated from vice-Presidential consideration did he make eyes at the New York senatorial nomination. And then he permitted the first public announcements of support to come from the "boss" elements in the New York party...