Word: staff
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...East Bank of the Canal in an attempt to relieve the pressure on Syria at President [Hafez] Assad's request. I also knew that the Pentagon advised the Israelis to try a counterattack to save their force in Sinai. In his Memoirs, the Israeli Chief of Staff, during the October War, tried to absolve himself by reporting that Golda Meir, after receiving the information gathered by the U.S. satellite, had asked the commanders to try to do anything-anything-because the Israelis on the Egyptian front had reached "the bottom," to quote verbatim...
...Cairo-Suez road. The talks were held -under U.N. supervision. But they were very protracted. I left at the time for Algiers to attend the Arab Summit Conference, and when I came back, the negotiations still hadn't got anywhere. I asked [Chief of Staff Mohammed Abdel] Gamassy to suspend them. "I am not prepared," I said, "to engage in this sort of haggling and bickering...
Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland and now a newscaster for WNBC-TV, welcoming ex-New York Mayor Abe Beame to the staff as an urban affairs consultant: "I hope the station hasn't become the employer of last resort for ex-mayors...
Bradlee: That's not my problem. We're trying to keep our Watergate momentum going. Think what the staff would say if I stopped it. So unless Kay rules otherwise...
...noted English economist, and disciple and definitive biographer (in 1951) of John Maynard Keynes; in Holt, Norfolk, England. A student of Keynes' at Cambridge, Harrod forged a brilliant career that encompassed teaching at Oxford University from 1921 to 1967 and serving on Sir Winston Churchill's private staff during World War II. He was knighted...