Word: autocratically
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...brought up on S.S. Pierce's groceries," remarked Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136 years, the haute cuisine grocery chain has long filled an epicurean niche in U.S. gastronomy. With its own coat of arms adorning a distinctive red label on canned goods, and the largest line (5,000 items) of privately packed fancy foods in the world, S.S. Pierce sells its delicacies not only through...
...growing reputation as an autocrat is particularly strange, because, during her seven years as president of Radcliffe, Mrs. Bunting has deliberately sought out student and alumnae opinion. While plans for a House system were being formulated in 1961, Mrs. Bunting worked hand-in-hand with a large committee of Cliffies and submitted her recommendations to a student referendum before they were presented to the College Council...
Even with a blue-ribbon candidate and a more expertly managed campaign, the G.O.P. would probably have fared little better. Daley is an autocrat, a Democrat and a bureaucrat in that order, and handles all three roles with zeal and efficiency. Though skeptics might reverse his slogan-"Good government is good politics"-King Richard has made it work well enough to satisfy the "big mules" of Chicago's power structure. Nudged by the nation's most formidable political machine, the city's rank-and-file voters agreed...
Pilate, in which Christ tells the Roman procurator that power must crumble before truth. Pilate, a baffled autocrat who suffers from psychosomatic headaches, asks the same question that is recorded in the New Testament: "What is truth?"*His prisoner, who is pictured as a man shrewd in his simplicity, replies: "The truth now is that your head aches. It aches so hard that you are thinking of death. And I've unwillingly become your executioner...
...overthrowing the government, in addition to the loyalty oath. Harvard helped lead the fight against the disclaimer--losing about three million dollars in the process when it refused to accept money on these terms. And in 1962, the nation's universities finally persuaded Judge Howard Smith, then the courtly autocrat of the House Rules Committee, to remove the disclaimer. But in Smith's maneuver on the floor of the House the statement of crimes was smuggled into the bill, and the loyalty oath was preserved...