Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executive director in 1961, the organization has made a particular effort to find jobs that have never before been open to Negroes or have what the league calls a symbolic "role model" significance. Secretarial positions, for example, are particularly coveted, because a Negro secretary or receptionist, sitting outside the boss's office, tells everyone in a company-more effectively than a dozen interoffice memos-that its policy is to hire Negroes. "If you've got them up on the executive floor," notes Young succinctly, "there is no question." More than 300 Negro girls in six cities are going...
...former utility infielder-outfielder who spent two successful years managing the Toronto Leafs in the strong Class AAA International League, Williams (no kin to Ted) wasted little time letting the Sox know who was boss when he reported for work this spring. "My job is to get togetherness on this ball club," he announced. "If these guys don't hustle, they're in trouble." Williams fined Slugger Conigliaro $1,000 for missing a bed check. He benched Third Baseman Joe Foy for being overweight, First Baseman Scott for striking out too often. By last week he seemed satisfied...
...past few weeks, Humphrey, his boss, and the entire governmental establishment of America have nervously watched the chickens come home to roost. Urban America, or ever increasingly Black America, is bolwing...
...easily drawn. Even the insane murderer kills to satisfy a need entirely real to him. Violence is often caused by "displaced aggression," when anger is forced to aim at a substitute target. Every psychologist knows that a man might beat his child because he cannot beat his boss. And a man may even murder because he feels rejected or "alienated." But what leads one man in such a situation to kill and another merely to get drunk is a question psychologists have never really answered. There is no doubt that violence has a cathartic effect, and the pressures that cause...
...Moscow Film Festival last week, Jack Valenti, go-go president of the Motion Picture Association of America, seemed to be working as hard for old boss L.B.J. as for the M.P.A.A...