Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hell, for my small work force, I'd be willing to pay those deductibles out of my own pocket. It's the big guys like Bethlehem, U.S. Steel and Consolidation who can't afford them because their labor force...
...Scottish stonemason. Ross became the professional at the Dornoch course in his native town. A Harvard professor named Robert Wilson, who spent his summers in Dornoch and became enraptured with golf, persuaded him to emigrate to America. Ross arrived in Boston in 1898 with $2 in his pocket. He went on to design over 500 courses, many of which are among the outstanding tests of golf in the country...
...December 1973 I was ready to liquidate the Deversoir pocket. Our forces started a war of attrition, and consistently put pressure on the infiltrators. We regained a good deal of ground every day-sometimes advancing a few yards, sometimes a few miles, but always advancing. I was really fully prepared to liquidate the Israelis there, but I had to take one risk into consideration, that of possible U.S. intervention. On Dec. 11, 1973, Kissinger came to see me again. I told him, "I cannot accept this way of conducting the negotiations. I am going to liquidate the Israeli Deversoir pocket...
...knew it before I came to see you," Kissinger answered. "I asked the Pentagon for a few aerial photographs of the battlefield and received a full report. Your wall of rockets consists of so many batteries (he specified the number), you have 800 tanks surrounding the Israeli Deversoir pocket, the number of your guns is (again he specified it) and you can actually wipe out that pocket. You must know, however, that if you do this the Pentagon will strike...
...west of the Canal, to finish you off. Our aim was to show you that the Russians were unreliable, and so we'd have dealt you a blow that actually hit the Russians! We're in the same situation today. If you attempt to liquidate the Israeli pocket, the Pentagon will strike at you because this is U.S. policy.* Besides, the Pentagon wants to avenge the defeat of its weapons in October. But do you insist on a military liquidation of the infiltrating forces...