Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jake was an apt, ambitious and obedient young man who never shirked a chore, even to kidnaping a Russian sailor
...years later he was back in the U.S. as one of Andrei Gromyko's chief advisers in U.N. One of Jake's jobs was on the Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press, where he surprised reporters by his jolly manner, so unlike Gromyko's icy front...
...They Are Coming." Jake had only tried to do his duty-Russian style. He had brought Mrs. Kasenkina back from Countess Tolstoy's New York farm and held her incommunicado at the consulate. After she had jumped, Jake concocted one story. Then last week he tried another story. Mrs. Kasenkina had seen "a crowd running from the Hotel Pierre towards the consulate," he said, and it had frightened her. He said she was depressed by the "malicious fabrications" of the U.S. press and overwrought by "threats of the United States police" to haul her into court "by force...
...Gross Violation." The State Department note rejected three separate Soviet government complaints, which were based, said the note, on misinformation supplied by Jake. "Consul General Lomakin's conduct constitutes an abuse of the prerogatives of his position and a gross violation [of diplomatic standards] ... It is requested that he leave the United States...
Said the New York Daily News, in U.S. idiom which no doubt would fascinate Jake: "This demand that Lomakin be jerked the hell out of here should have a wholesome effect on the overlords of the Kremlin...