Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allow themselves a wave of revenge against the conquered foe. Last week some 28 lesser Batista officials, left behind when the top dogs fled, were convicted in kangaroo courts and shot; another nine were executed without benefit of trial at all. Typical victims: Santiago's Maritime Police Chief Alejandro Garcia Olayón, Santa Clara's Police Chief Cornelio Rojas (see cuts). After one execution drew a crowd of 3,000, the rebels ruled that spectators would henceforth be barred-but allowed to inspect the bodies afterward...
Proffering neither judicial explanation nor evidence of displeasure, Chief Justice Earl Warren resigned from the American Bar Association. Mused one surprised A.B.A. official: "I can't figure it out. I think the American Bar Association has been very kind to the Chief Justice...
There is no water on the moon, so Gold's erosion cannot be like the kind that wears down earth's mountains. He thinks that the chief eroding agent is high-energy radiation from the sun helped by cosmic rays and meteorites. They slowly chewed a flour-fine dust from the moon's exposed rocks and kept it stirred up so that it gradually flowed into low places like the interiors of old craters and the maria...
...temperamental. Beise (rhymes with icy) joined the Bank of America in 1936 at Giannini's invitation after an early career in banking, took over as president in 1954. So wrapped up is he in his job that he has given up all outside hobbies (except gardening). His chief task has been to transform the bank from the temperamental, one-man bailiwick of autocratic A. P. Giannini into a smoothly mechanical, multiple-management operation...
...garden path by airily assuring Alcoa that Treasury approval was routine. The worst of it was that once Alcoa had signed the $8.40 agreement, it could not go into the market and offer more without making the $8.40 look bad. To top off Alcoa's unhappiness, its chief competitor had a major European affiliate; Alcoa had none...