Word: cobourn
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...made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That goddam Elizabeth," Barnet would rant, "she's in there with Cobourn [his own boss] every day, pushing her way into everything...
...supervisor, F.D. Cobourn, was neither an economist nor a manager by training. A classic case of the Peter Principle, he had been promoted fairly rapidly until he hit a position he couldn't handle, and there he sat. An introverted man who had once apparently been a fair researcher and writer, he simply could not manage an office. He would grunt hello in the morning and then disappear into his office, where he spent his days rearranging the commas in our reports...
...three-mile mark. Baker was leading with Hardin and the generally underrated McLoone second and third. Brown ace John Cobourn held fourth, but Harvard's Roy Shaw and Bob Stempson the last two scorers needed to spike the win-were close behind...
Baker flew around the course in 27:09. just 11 seconds off the course record Hardin set last Fall. Coming over the last hill. plucking at his shorts, the senior held about a 60-yard lead. Hardin was second. Brown's Cobourn third. McLoone pulled out fourth. Shaw sixth, and Stempson eighth...
Behind the Bruin pair come sophomore teammates Bob Busick and John Cobourn. They will be the problem of Dick Howe and Jim Baker...
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