Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's assistant for national-security affairs, has an improbable passion, which he perhaps picked up from his boss: professional football. Kissinger analyzes the play as if it were a parable of war and peace. Watching a Miami Dolphins-Oakland Raiders game with White House Aide William Safire, Kissinger second-guessed the signals accurately until the middle of the second quarter, when Miami had the ball. "What now?" asked Safire. Kissinger observed that Miami Quarterback Bob Griese had not yet passed on first down, and might try it this time to catch Oakland off balance...
...your ass up here," the boss barks, poking at her chair. And she goes...
...time, was talking to the cameramen and reporters who watched. They seemed to be the only friends she had then. "I still have a little courage left," she sobbed. "I went to work today. They called me on the phone and told me. I passed out or something. My boss helped me and I came back here. It was awful." She vented some of her anger at the men in buttons and blue. The reporters asked her where she was going to spend the night. She did not know. Eventually a friend came and she left with her, shutting...
...face of Czechoslovakia's steadily sagging economy and its even limper national morale, Communist Party Boss Gustav Husak last week decided that the time was ripe for a good pep talk. Before 700 workers at the Skoda auto works in Pilsen, he admitted: "Quite a lot of people are falling into some sort of depression. They are spreading panicky moods, as if our state and all of our society were facing some sort of bankruptcy from which there is no way out." Husak thereupon assured his listeners that he would be better for them than either of his predecessors...
...before Husak addressed the Skoda workers, their boss, Plant Manager Jan Martinak, lost his job in the purge. He had been chosen before the invasion by one of the workers' councils created under Dubcek's program of partial self-management for industry. The councils are now "under analysis" by the government and are no longer active. Josef Pavel, Interior Minister under Dubcek and a main force behind the reforms, was "suspended" from the Communist Party-one step from expulsion. Ota Sik, architect of last year's economic reforms, was kicked out of the party. His fate...