Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough. The Republican Party is a party of principle, not the captive of a clan or cult of personality. This is not a party controlled by any one man's money. It believes in an executive branch that is an equal partner, not a ruthless boss; in a judicial branch that is equal and independent, that interprets laws but does not make them...
...announcement made it official. Seven weeks after the death of her publisher husband, Philip Graham, Katharine Meyer Graham, 46, was elected president of the Washington Post Co. As boss, she promises to continue the policies of her husband and her father, Eugene Meyer, who together built the company into an estimated $65 million property that includes the Post, Newsweek and Art News magazines, plus radio and TV stations...
...work in 1927, Low exacted the promise that he could draw whatever he chose. That choice was rarely to the proprietor's Tory tastes; Low's brushwork punctured the Conservative Party, the Beaver's dreams of British Empire, and the Beaver himself. Low once depicted his boss as a witch on a broomstick, preaching "politics for child minds." When Beaverbrook urged his staff to go light on Mussolini's rape of Abyssinia, Low impudently drew three monkeys in the Beaver's likeness and attached the caption, "See No Abyssinia, Hear No Abyssinia, Speak No Abyssinia...
...boss of Foote, Cone-Fairfax Mastick Cone, 61-concedes that advertising seems a risky investment because clients are continuously switching and an agency's only real asset is brainpower, a perishable and uncertain commodity. "Our inventory goes down the elevator every night," muses Cone. But he sees a sign of stability in his agency's steady growth, up 40% in four years...
Carson did not easily come by his vocation. Once he worked in an office-the Income Tax Office, of all inappropriate things. It could not last. His boss was a man called Beamish of whom he writes: "I was frightened of Beamish as I was frightened of all elderly administrators, officials, policemen, colonels and judges. There is a perpetual net for the butterflies. They can catch you for arson, witchcraft, sodomy, soliciting, contempt, vagrancy. They can prove you without means of support, unborn or dead. They can bury you in unconsecrated ground. You have to fly very hard to keep...