Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lytton's notion, Ed Day, himself a sometime Californian, said: "I am confident that the President will not appoint a man whose main qualifications are political manipulation and power plays. I am sure the President wants a continuation of the emphasis on better mail service rather than boss politics in the Post Office Department." Lytton's gibes did not bother Big Daddy a bit, but Day's did. After all, Unruh had recommended Day to the President for the Postmaster General's office in the first place...
...C.D.C. has accused Unruh of being a "boss," a "bully" and a "dictator." Last week, when Vice President Lyndon Johnson arrived in Sacramento to attend a California State Democratic convention, he was greeted at the airport by a forest of placards saying: "Down with Big Daddy." Upset by such evidence of Democratic discord, Johnson pleaded: "If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable...
...except by war, a West German surrender to Communism, or some kind of settlement for which West Germany might have to pay a ruinous price. As a result, many Germans are beginning to ponder measures that fall, short of actual reunification-such as trade pressure-designed to persuade Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to give East Germans a little more freedom and a somewhat better life...
...marriage goes on the rocks, it sets people to wondering just what brought about the tragedy. All last week, people who knew Anne and Henry Ford-and many of those who didn't-were pondering the chain of events that led the U.S.'s most prominent industrial boss to legal separation-and to what seemed likely to be a European rendezvous with a hand some Italian divorcee named Christina Austin...
...just may be one of their own. What's more, efficiency experts say that exposing employees to the strain of a perpetual manhunt is bad for morale. There is also the bad publicity to consider. Best advice, then, for the white-collar worker, as well as for his boss down the hall, is: Keep purses in locked drawers, wallets in pockets-and hang onto your hats...