Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens, protested Wallace's action as an "invasion." But the high school stayed shut-and Wallace ordered most of his troopers to move on to Birmingham, where integration was supposed to start on Wednesday. As the state cops were leaving Tuskegee, Wallace's on-the-scene straw boss, State Finance Director Seymore Trammell, walked...
Last week, for example, a White House aide, obviously reflecting his boss's views, confided to newsmen that Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller will knock each other off, opening the way for Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or, less likely, Michigan's Governor George Romney...
...more gun-toting brag than performance. Machos insist that the women they marry be virgins, and they will defend the honor of their sisters to the death-all of which makes their endless tales of conquest a statistical impossibility. In industry, machismo makes business a one-man show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even though his country must have it and sooner or later may have to plead for it. And it makes retreat...
...chief who pledges to wield them firmly but carefully. "I feel strongly that we shouldn't abuse our power," says Assistant Attorney General William Orrick Jr., 47, who took over the Justice Department's antitrust division this spring after serving in the State Department and as boss of Justice's civil rights division. Orrick followed Trustbuster Lee Loevinger, who filed a record 92 antitrust cases in 1962, irritated businessmen with his militancy and did not get along with Bobby Kennedy. He has been shifted to the Federal Communications Commission...
...sight of his boss writing intently across page after page of lined yellow notebook paper moved Major General Courtney Whitney to mild curiosity...