Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swarthy metallurgical engineer whom Khrushchev plucked from an obscure job in the Ukraine little more than a decade ago. Brezhnev will now probably give up the merely ceremonial functions of the Soviet presidency, take over as taskmaster of heavy industry and armaments. The second new secretary is Ukrainian Party Boss Nikolai Podgorny, 60, who is expected to take over the supervision of party cadres...
...boss was scammin' from the public, and I was scammin' from him. Anyway, I gave it up. Why? My conscience got the best of me. You don't believe it? Well, that isn't exactly right either. You see, the guy got on to me. So I left...
Tradition has it at the New York Times that for 65 years the chair set aside for the boss has had an invisible name plate bearing the legend, "Reserved for Family." It is a tradition that dates all the way back to the turn of the century when Adolph Ochs, a printer turned publisher, hocked his Chattanooga Times to take a flyer at running a paper in the big town...
...training is not yet complete, the new Times boss can count on a seasoned hierarchy.* And Punch can certainly count on the support of the board. Presided over by his father, the board includes Punch himself and a strong family cast: his mother Iphigene, his sisters Ruth and Marian, and his brother-in-law Richard Cohen. Outsiders on the board include Vice President Bancroft, retired World Banker Eugene Black, and Carr Van Anda's son Paul. The family also holds two-thirds of the voting stock. Patriarch Sulzberger announced the masthead changes last week with understandable assurance...
...image and in action. Never for an instant does it whirl along on wings of epic elan; generally it just bumps from scene to ponderous scene on the square wheels of exposition. Part of what is wrong went wrong in the cutting room, and for that Darryl Zanuck, boss of 20th Century-Fox, is possibly to blame. But much of what is wrong was wrong in the script, and for that Chief Scenarist Mankiewicz must wear the ears. Part One seems on the whole a competent and entertaining picture, but in Part Two, Mankiewicz goes wildly wrong...