Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Rio de Janeiro in the last decade of the 19th century is presented to the reader with a dated but delectable use of hyperbole, metaphor and epigram...
...Accepted the credentials of new Ethiopian Ambassador Teshome Haile Marriam, later cruised down the Potomac with Marriam and 34 other ambassadors. An uninvited guest was New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who hustled aboard at the last minute thinking that he was joining another party. Said Lyndon: "You're my favorite stowaway...
Yachts, yachts, yachts. New York's Senator Jacob Javits, 61, scampered up the gangway of what he thought was the Honey Fitz outward bound for U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's floating dinner party for the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Isn't that just like Lyndon?" thought Javits. "If there is a party somewhere in town, he'll be there." For his part, L.B.J. must have pondered whether it was just like Jack Javits to be crashing a presidential party for foreign diplomats aboard the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. As both official craft...
...ESAU & JACOB by Machado de Assis. 287 pages. University of California...
...operation less than a year, designed to meet a gigantic problem−that of reducing poverty in the United States. To expect that there would not be problems in administration would be unreasonable." Dominick's amendment failed, 51 to 40. An amendment by New York's Republican Jacob Javits would have provided for public hearings on any disputed veto; it lost...