Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is a sunbathed sugar-cane field 18 miles south of Camagüey. The Prime Minister of the republic is wearing fatigue pants, gloves, a sweaty, long-sleeved shirt and a sloppy sombrero. He is perspiring copiously and his beard is dripping. He slashes right and left at the stalks with a shiny machete as a Cuban radio reporter approaches with microphone in hand...
...Manhattan at week's end Meany underwent an arthroplasty operation to ease the pain in his arthritic right hip joint, a disability that has forced him to use a cane for several years...
...have to stand in line every day for coffee. Cuba is a jail." Added her husband, a former railroad shop foreman: "They don't give you work if you are not with the government, and if you are with the government, you have to cut sugar cane, join the militia and stand guard." Cubans who decide to leave lose everything. Those in nonessential jobs are summarily fired, and must sign over their cars, homes and savings. The only things they can take with them are a few personal belongings-and hope...
...responsible for narcotics, welfare, buildings and parks. Though Lindsay's vaunted equanimity has also suffered, he recovered his good humor long enough to supply a surprise postscript to the annual musical lampoon staged by political reporters. Always a show business buff, Lindsay donned straw hat, white gloves and cane for a soft-shoe song-and-dance routine with a professional partner. "Maybe," he quipped, "I can save this show yet." That hopeful observation was clearly not limited to the evening's entertainment...
Evidently el máximo lider was shaken. Abruptly altered were last weekend's annual Havana University celebrations of the abortive 1957 student attack on Fulgencio Batista's palace. Instead, the government announced, the entire student body had decided to spend the holiday cutting sugar cane...