Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buttoned Lips. Sylvester saw no need to do so. The fact is that he has come under fire mostly for carrying out policies initiated by his boss. No one was bold enough to suggest that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ought to sack a loyal employee for that, but one McNamara order that particularly piqued Subcommittee Chairman John Moss was the still-standing rule that Pentagon officials must report all talks with newsmen. "This may well constitute a clog on full freedom of information," said Moss. Not at all, retorted Sylvester. Then Artless Art nearly put his foot in his mouth...
Bartolet is clearly one of the best men on the team. He led the squad in hitting (.374). in hits (34), and was third in RBIs (16). While not a feast man, he more than adequately covered the territory around the second sack...
Ever since he lifted his ban on civilian political activity last January, the heat has been on South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee. Anger over the strong-arm tactics of the feared Central Intelligence Agency forced Park to sack his top hatchet man (and nephew by marriage), C.I.A. Boss Kim Chong Pil. Investigations revealed wholesale corruption within South Korea's C.I.A., and charges were leveled that Park had done nothing to relieve South Korea's economic chaos. Threatened with civil war by disaffected members of his own military junta, Park reluctantly bowed out of the forthcoming civilian...
...certain completely unpredictable emergency evenings, only Mickey can make David agree to go to bed. On those evenings, John Mayer takes his son down to the basement, turns on his ham TV equipment and tunes in Mickey. Before long the puppet has persuaded the kid to hit the sack...
...what is said hurts less than what is seen: the hangman officiously computing the hemp required for his grisly business, the doomed man dumbly waiting for the noose with his head tied up in a sack-the eyes, it is said, pop out sometimes and roll around on the floor...