Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brainerd Holmes, NASA's man in charge of the manned space-flight program, including the man-to-the-moon effort. A tough-minded engineer with ideas of his own about space programs, Holmes had decided to resign (effective Sept. 1) because of continued conflicts with his statutory boss, NASA Administrator James Webb...
mellow, phat, stone, boss. General adjectives of approval: a stone fox is a very pretty girl; a boss short...
Four years ago, President Adolfo Lopez Mateos sacked the politicians in control of Pemex and named a new boss: Pascual Gutierrez Roldan, 60, a successful Monterrey steelman. Gutierrez Roldan got rid of as many old pols and their pals as he could, reduced operating costs and used the money to drill new wells, build refineries and lay extensive pipelines. He then went after the foreign capital that he needed, hitting the money market at just the right time. Postwar reconstruction was well out of the way, and both European and U.S. banks were hunting new investments. Within six months Gutierrez...
...Espionage has no continuing star, just a succession of eager wolves in Bond clothes, and CBS's The Great Adventure will be a series of stories from American history, including Barney Oldfield, Civil War submarines, Sitting Bull, the crash of the dirigible Akron, Boss Tweed...
...started as an engineer for General Motors, where a former boss remembers him as "an intense young man who moved so fast that his coattails were flying most of the time." When he was lured to Westinghouse in 1954, he had risen to assistant chief engineer of the Oldsmobile Division, become an automation expert who was largely credited with stepping up Olds engine production from 30 to 85 an hour...