Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortified bases-Manzanillo, Bayamo and Santiago-and the rebels took over the countryside, cutting off Oriente from the rest of Cuba. Fidel's brother, Raul, led his 150 men out of the Sierra del Cristal, 100 miles northeast of the main rebel strongholds. One night at Moa Bay they held the Freeport Sulphur Co.'s $75 million nickel mining project for twelve hours before pulling out. With no traffic moving in or out of Santiago, residents began dipping into hoarded food supplies. The rebels admitted that they were not yet ready to take Santiago by armed assault...
...which runs a refinery near Santiago, chartered a plane to get 44 dependents of U.S. employees away in time. As the army pulled back its outposts, the dun walls of Moncada Barracks, six blocks square in the heart of Santiago, bristled with troops. Only twelve miles across Santiago Bay, a 150-man column of rebels was boldly encamped...
...Windward Islands (pop. 321,600) produce bay rum on St. Lucia, nutmeg on Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da), arrowroot for babies' cookies on St. Vincent, and cocoa on Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka,). St. Lucia houses a U.S. missile-tracking station for Cape Canaveral's downrange...
Slipping Pig. Navigator Bruce Kulka unbuckled his seat and shoulder harnesses, scooted up from his seat in the nose to the crawlway, opened a hatch and squeezed into the floodlighted bomb bay. There the big bomb-SACmen call it a "pig"-hung from its single shackle. Cautiously, Kulka tried to slide a big steel pin through the shackle to hold the pig in case the electrical lock let go. The bomb began to wobble. Desperately, Kulka worked...
Suddenly the bomb unhinged, dropped through the fragile bomb-bay doors, which flapped open, fell out of the B-47. Somehow Kulka managed to catch hold of something-he cannot remember what it was-and hung on for his life in the empty bomb bay in the whistling wind. Back in the flight cabin, Koehler heard a rumble, and Copilot Charles Woodruff idly noticed a shock wave radiating on the ground. "Just like a concussion wave from a bomb," Woodruff told himself. Then, with a shock, he realized what had happened. Captain Koehler closed the bomb-bay doors and reported...