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Word: camaguey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...travel agents, gathered in their hotels, Castro tourist officials solemnly declared that onetime Hero Matos was a "counterrevolutionary, a running dog of the plantation owners." Then, just as Castro, returning from Camaguey, stepped out of his helicopter in downtown Havana, the DC-3 from Florida roared low over the skyline and dumped its load of white pamphlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: No Time for Tourists | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...State), well built (147 Ibs., 5 ft. 8½ in.), and he was well ballyhooed as an up & coming boxer. Turning pro in 1949, he fought 39 straight fights without a loss. Kid Gavilan, born about the same time as Davey, was educated in the sugar-cane fields of Camaguey, Cuba, where he developed a sleekly muscled body (146 Ibs., 5 ft. 10 in.) and a demonstrated ability to take care of himself with his fists (105 pro fights since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fallen Idol | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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