Word: honcho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honcho controlling RAMJAC is a shopping bag lady--she is too important to live luxuriously in public--who carries RAMJAC's important documents in the toes of her purple sneakers. She is, of course, from Cambridge, Mass. At the end of the novel, Walter finds himself in a legal mess concerning RAMJAC which will land him in jail once again. Yet, like all Vonnegut heroes, he still believes, like the rest of us, "that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool...
...gives a little away: NUM 1. This is not wish fulfillment on a rear bumper, though. The owner of this Mercedes rates. In a time of phenomenal success for the record business (698.2 million albums, singles and tapes were sold for $3.5 billion in 1977), Al Coury, president, head honcho and chief dervish of Robert Stigwood's RSO Records, has taken a penthouse on top of the sales curve, even as his family stays snug in their San Fernando Valley tract house. "Yeah, I live in the same house I did when I was making $18,000 a year...
...Harvard women's soccer team blanked Brown 2-0 yesterday behind Soldiers Field and established their incontrovertible claim to the head honcho spot in New England women's soccer...
Number one honcho--subject to some debate--is one Robert Hackett, an All-American swimmer who as a freshman last year launched a one-man crusade against the Harvard record book. One more thing: before coming to Harvard, Bobby won a silver medal at the Montreal Olympics. He's not a bad bet to take a gold or two at Moscow, either...
...first six goals of the game. On the tally that made it 6-0 (by Faught). Martin's assist on the play moved him into second place on the all-time scoring parade for Harvard lacrossee with 144 points, just ahead of Dave Bohn '61 but far behind head honcho Grady Watts...