Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubted that Jake Devers was a first-rate officer, well qualified to carry on in the theater from which any invasion of Western Europe must be launched...
...Goldbergs is "Rags to Riches" with a Yiddish accent. Through the years The Goldbergs (Mama Molly, Papa Jake, Daughter Rosie, Son Sammy) have moved gradually from Manhattan's Lower East Side up Riverside Drive and, finally, into the green Connecticut countryside. Their snail's-pace success has been milestoned by the kind of homely moralizing which moves clerics to write friendly letters...
...When his female disciples numbered more than 50, young Indians became jealous and old ones were shocked. Even the divine performance in the waters of Titicaca lost its interest, mainly because the Indians found it more fun to watch the new football team which had been organized in Paka-Jake's native village...
...Paka-Jake, needing another outlet, concentrated on clairvoyance: he could always tell that one of his more affluent neighbors was about to die in a few months. Forthwith one of the disciples would be dispatched with a warning-and a promise that Paka-Jake would intercede with the gods if the neighbor paid Paka-Jake a couple of thousand bolivianos (about $40). Sometimes he paid and sometimes not. If not, the neighbor kicked the bucket...
Last week Bolivian authorities put Paka-Jake in jail, began to produce evidence that, in at least 28 cases, his divine prophecies were nothing but ungodly murders...