Word: pocketing
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...lying on the Columbia bench so thoroughly trampled by Harvard's defense that reserve quarterback Glenn Erikson had to replace him. Erikson quickly worked over Harvard's second stringers for an 88-yard touchdown drive, picking up 61 of those yards by rolling out or scrambling out of the pocket. Jackson stumbled off the bench to throw the touchdown pass, but the two-point conversion pass was knocked down by Dave Ignacio...
...more a year from $406 to $551, wiping out for many families all the personal tax breaks requested by Nixon. Postponing some of this increase, rather than legislating further permanent tax cuts, would serve a double purpose. It would put more spending money into the consumer's pocket, yet still help to preserve the long-run capacity of the Government to raise tax revenue. Washington will shortly need every dime that it can collect to bankroll much-needed social programs...
...legend Texans are a grandiose breed with more than the natural share of megalomaniacs. But University of Texas Biochemist Earl B. Dawson thinks that he detects an uncommon pocket of psychological adjustment around El Paso. The reason, says Dawson, lies in the deep wells from which the city draws its water supply...
Black's bible was the Constitution, a well-riffled pocket copy of which he always carried. He believed in enforcing it whatever the consequences and he refused to substitute his judgment, no matter how worthy he thought the cause...
...only the P.F.L.P. but all the freewheeling guerrilla groups, King Hussein and his army chased them out of Amman and penned them in in a mountainous area near the Syrian border. Two months ago, 30,000 royal troops, mostly Bedouins, attacked again and wiped out that last guerrilla pocket. The fedayeen either surrendered to the King or fled to friendlier Arab countries. George Habash, the soft-eyed physician who still leads the militantly Marxist P.F.L.P., is determined to continue the fight. In his first interview with a Western newsman since last year's hijackings, he told TIME...