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  • The ancient annual festivities of Saturnalia, where the slaves would play master, were a temporary release from bossdom.

    Why Women Aren't Funny Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • The ancient annual festivities of Saturnalia, where the slaves would play master, were a temporary release from bossdom.

    Why Women Aren't Funny Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • Didn't our country resent the Soviet bossdom, so much as to finally destroy it?

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Didn't our country resent the Soviet bossdom, so much as to finally destroy it?

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • He sent his paper regularly to the old leaders, who had been shoved aside as he had been, and wrote letters to them urging them to arouse the people to throw off the chains of bossdom.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

  • New York City is not unique in its experience with political bossdom.

    The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization Samuel Peter Orth 1897

  • The chief ringster was William M. Tweed, and his name will always be associated in the public mind with political bossdom.

    The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization Samuel Peter Orth 1897

  • Didn’t our country resent the Soviet bossdom, so much as to finally destroy it?

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Three Worlds To Conquer - Poul Anderson Blue Tyson 2008

  • Didn’t our country resent the Soviet bossdom, so much as to finally destroy it?

    Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • "While I listened, I recalled a little periodical in Madrid which had no other object than to furnish bombs at reasonable prices, and which said, speaking of a manufacturer in Catalonia: 'Señor So-and-so is the most powerful boss in the province of Tarragona, and even at that there are those who dispute his bossdom.'

    Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

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