Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anybody's tintype. For even as he was preparing to meet with the railway negotiators after his flight from the fair, Johnson had another idea. He recalled that he had an engagement to fly to Chicago the next afternoon to speak to Mayor Dick Daley, the Democratic boss, and his minions. Why not expand the tour? No sooner said than done...
...nervous strongman with a pet baby elephant, an incipient ulcer and a reliance on sedatives; Siho plays the dandy, wears three gold rings and affects an ivory-handled pistol to go with his favorite blue dress uniform. Although Siho is generally regarded as a henchman of rightist, anti-Communist boss, General Phoumi Nosavan, both coup leaders claimed to have acted without involving Phoumi, who, as Deputy Premier and Defense Minister in Prince Souvanna's government, could not very well be leading a coup d'état. Said Phoumi after the coup: "I am in rather large difficulties...
Occasional Disagreement. Despite his complete loyalty to De Gaulle, he has been known to disagree and to argue, at least once threatened his resignation when the boss wanted to execute General Edmond Jouhaud, a respected old soldier implicated in the S.A.O. conspiracy over Algeria. Lately, Pompidou has made strong efforts to show that he is more than De Gaulle's tool, and did so again in the Assembly last week. Staking out his claim to a role as policymaker alongside De Gaulle, he reminded critics that all presidential acts require his signature too, and implied that he does...
...open the fair did, despite the abortive effort by CORE'S Brooklyn chapter to jam up all the approaches with stalled cars and subways. And it was very close to the readiness Fair Boss Robert Moses had prophesied all along. Externally, only a handful of buildings were not complete, ranging from the exposed rafters of the Belgian Village to a few forlorn steel girders sticking out of the ground at the site of the Hall of Science...
...harried mobsters load the dumbwaiter with the few provisions they have. From the boss above, though, they get nothing but complaints and increasingly exotic orders (Ormith Macarounada, Char Siu, Scampi). The pair pick at each other jumpily: "We've been through our tests, haven't we? . . . . What's he playing these games for?" At last Ben receives their instructions and the play rushes to a finish, knotted at the end with a violent twist...