Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three planes from Moscow landed at Orly field and disgorged 87 Russians, led by moon-faced Jacob Malik. Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky was due next day. From the U.S. came Secretary of State Dean Acheson and an entourage of 93, including Warren Austin and Eleanor Roosevelt. From London came Anthony Eden with his Homburg and a briefcase filled with problems...
...living for his wife and four children. Williams had such a hard time making ends meet that his wife's sister, Sarah Fairless, took five-year-old Ben to live with her in nearby Justus. In the front room of their house by the railroad tracks, her husband, Jacob Fairless, ran a grocery. The couple adopted Ben, and he took their name...
...become a civil engineer, Ben switched to Ohio Northern University, working summers as an attendant in an insane asylum. In 1913, with his hard-won degree, he returned to Justus to work as a surveyor for the railroad. He got into the steel business by accident. In Massillon, "General" Jacob Coxey was gathering an army of unemployed to make a second march on Washington in protest against the hard times. Ben took an interurban to watch the show, but never got to Massillon. Just outside the town he saw men clearing the site for a new plant for the Central...
...resigned with him, Harold Wilson and John Freeman, held their seats. So did the rest of the small camp of Bev-anites, including Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf Astor also got elected. Father, a viscount", sits in the House of Lords...
...Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...