Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those guys* came in with this 'to hell with you' speech and hit the boss in a mood to take...
...Virginia's Democratic Congressman William Tuck, 67, and his proposal brooked no "unusual circumstances"; it simply prohibited the federal courts from moving into reapportionment cases period. Tuck's proposal was bogged down in the Judiciary Committee until last week, when Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, boss of the Rules Committee, obligingly lifted it out of Judiciary and started it on its way to the House floor...
Political Boss Frank ("I am the law") Hague put Jersey City on the map by making it the most corrupt municipality in the U.S. When Hague's 30-year stranglehold was finally broken in 1949, Jersey City seemed destined for lingering obscurity. But last week that drab, gritty city (pop. 275,000) was back on the map again. For three nights, hundreds of Negroes rioted, looted and tossed fire bombs in a racial rampage that was grimly reminiscent of last month's Harlem and Rochester violence...
...longer-quite-so-underling above having a go at marrying the boss' daughter; and since her fiance of record at the outset is a buck-toothed, horse-faced, pompous young peer, so much the better. (Daughter--played by Millicent Martin--seems somehow to have avoided the quasigenetic blight of the elite; she is attractive, intelligent, and spirited enough to reconcile even a John Osborne...
...workingman may have more leisure time, but his boss is working longer hours than ever. That is the conclusion of a survey made by the Chase Manhattan Bank and reported last week in its bimonthly Business in Brief. Since World War II, the average worker has gained an additional 155 hours a year in time-off, now works a 40-hour week or less. On the other hand, 40% of all managers, executives and proprietors put in more than 48 hours a week on the job, usually carry home work in their attache cases...