Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many China watchers conclude that Chou may be seriously ill, and perhaps is under treatment by the Italian specialist in heart ailments who was recently summoned to China supposedly to treat Party Boss Mao Tse-tung. There remains one other possibility: Chou En-lai may be in seclusion preparing the groundwork for the often postponed party congress, which has not met since 1956, though supposed to assemble every four years...
...mile round trip to France and back. He took 12 hr. 35 min. to get halfway, was back to within eight miles of Dover when the channel turned against him, forced him to quit. But California Schoolgirl Leonore Modell, 14, doesn't have to worry about the boss. So she swam the chilly channel against the tide in 15 hr. 30 min., became the youngest person in history to make the crossing...
...Times. On smaller dailies, down-in-the-trenches control by the managing editor is both common and feasible. On the Times, it is virtually impossible. Catledge commands a news-gathering army of 850 far-flung hands. Some denizens of the Times's newsroom sit so far from the boss that when Catledge became managing editor his staff whimsically presented him with binoculars. This crew, with help from wire services, generates some million words of copy each day-of which the daily Times, for all its bulkiness, can find room for only 170,000. No one on the paper, including...
...Gorgon shudders. When he talks, Thor answers. He is all bituminous at heart, but he is hewn of anthracite. Bauer looks, says one Oriole player, "like an M-l ready to go off." He commands respect, he commands obedience, and he commands a certain amount of controversy. His own boss, Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, calls him "no great shakes as a baseball strategist" and says that he "manages by instinct." But Third Baseman Robinson, who prides himself on being a strategist, says: "On the plays Hank has pulled that I don't agree with, he has proved...
Make It Hurt. And Bauer obviously intended to keep that happy feeling. To make sure the Orioles knew how to spell boss, he made it extra-clear in his first and just about only clubhouse meeting. "I've got a job to do, and you've got a job to do," rasped Bauer. "I'm paid to manage, and you're paid to play." Next came Bauer's Rules of Behavior: a midnight curfew, jacket and tie at all times on the road, no drinking at the hotel where the team was staying...