Word: cake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greenberg was shaped for his role of Samaritan of the streets by his memories of Depression hard times and by the charity of his father, Pinchus Joseph, who owned a Brooklyn bakery. "My father would often include a coffee cake or a sandwich in the bag without his customer's knowing," he says. "He would always tell us, 'Don't deprive yourself of the joy of giving.' " Money was short, and Michael has a searing recollection of losing a glove while helping bring supplies into the store on a bitterly cold morning. "I was never able to find...
Witness #7: Akeem, taxi driver (One of the more infamous episodes in this scandal occurred when former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane went on a secret mission to Iran, bringing with him a cake and a bible for the Ayatollah. The question in Iran was, who ate the cake? The Holy Court spent days trying to determine the culprit--following what the Tehran newspapers gleefully called "The Trail of Crumbs"--until the investigations led to Akeem, the person who drove McFarlane to the airport...
...Mani Sadr: So what did the devil say to you when he gave you the cake...
...Mani Sadr: And you took the cake...
...last year, but she has come out of a coma twice. "When they start to get sick, they may just want to lie down," Helen says. She is a 41-year-old black woman, a matriarchal blend of sweetness and strength. "You have to say, 'Let's do patty-cake,' 'Let's sing,' 'Let's kiss on each other a little while.' Let's do all those mushy things that prolong the child's life...