Word: chieftains
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...bureaucratic sub-chieftain could tell Senator Byrd without cracking a smile, the Government always needs more employes 1) in wartime to win the victory, 2) in peacetime to avoid war, 3) in depression to help the needy, 4) in prosperity to avoid depressions...
...carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...
Cried Radio Yenan: "Chiang Kaishek, the Fascist chieftain . . . whose policy has been to sit aside and watch others fight . . . really has no right to accept a Japanese surrender. . . . Reactionary . . . stupid . . . sinister plot ... to instigate civil...
...prophetic hero sails northward to buy wooded Manhattan Island from Indian Chieftain Badger (Anthony Quinn), originator of the Badger Game, for the customary price. Then he plunks forward a hundred years or so into the middle of Knickerbocker Holiday minus Peter Stuyvesant, again meets and at last appreciates Miss Leslie. She gets him talking hindside-to Dutch dialect so automatically that, jailed, he sings An Angel If I Had the Wings Of. When at length the genie gets control of his defective time machine, he restores the hero to the present, in the uniform he wanted all along...
...employer as well as a labor leader: men of Fay's union worked for Fay's construction company. With another A.F. of L. chieftain, balding, scarred James Bove, Vice President of the Hod Carriers' union, Fay held a virtual monopoly on the East's construction workers. He had power, money, attorneys, and the friend ship of politicians like New Jersey's Boss Frank Hague...