Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk with Ambassador Jacob Malik proved little, Cadbury said, as Malik merely read prepared statements putting the blame for the trouble on the Western powers. Cadbury said little gestures were needed to instill trust, and that "the time is past for speeches...
...Died. Jacob Homer, 96, last survivor of General George A. Custer's historic 7th Regiment, which was massacred at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; of pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak. A New Yorker who jo:ned the Army to see the West, he survived the battle because he was not there-there weren't enough horses to go around, and he had to stay behind when Custer made his last stand...
...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide-books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshman likes to quote from a parody of the series called "Rollo Visits Cambridge" in which Rollo asks Uncle George--"What is a Dean?" and his sage relative replies: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman seated at 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his service." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds: "laying aside my solitaire for a moment...
...boys along Jacob's Beach had never thought much of Joey Maxim as a light heavyweight champion. For 19 months he had refused to risk his title, though he had ventured once into the heavyweight class and taken a tremendous 15-round belting from then-Champion Ezzard Charles. He might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless...
...Died. Jacob J. Golomb, 58, Latvian-born immigrant who started in business with $5 and a sewing machine, built up one of the nation's largest sports equipment enterprises (Everlast Sporting Goods Co.), supplied free boxing gloves and punching bags to scores of boys clubs, summer camps and schools; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...