Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following his left-wing reflexes, Castro immediately blamed the U.S. for the tragedy. His mouthpiece commentators blamed "the interests that place obstacles in the way of Cuba's purchasing arms and planes; interests that bombed our cane fields and cities." The government's Cormbate hit the streets with an extra, calling the explosion "another U.S.S. Maine,"-hinted that the U.S. had blown up the ship to compel Cuba to accept revision of Cuba's sugar quota...
...Indonesia, the East Germans finished a sugar mill two years behind schedule only to find that it was a beet-sugar mill and the rollers were not heavy enough to crush Indonesian cane sugar...
...Roman coins of widely separated dates suggested that a remnant of the Jewish resistance force held out for a century. From one of the caves came a woman's comb, fragments of clothing, and a piece used in chess or some similar game. In another were arrows with cane shafts, no doubt intended for use against Roman legionnaires. At each end of the wadi, Dr. Aharoni's expedition found the ruins of blockhouses built by the Romans to starve out the rebels. In one case...
...shock but to seduce; he subordinates all symbols to pictorial splendor. And, like James Joyce in literature, he delights in demonstrating his utter mastery of varying techniques and styles. "Eet ees interesting que I have used on le left a very realistic technique," he murmurs, waving his enameled cane, "and on le right le technique of les pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes on the right side is a head-down Crucifixion and its reflection through the banners of the Spanish provinces. A Paradisial egg of light at the top of the canvas contains, from the bottom up, Ferdinand...
...Then Groom Wendel Griffith brought in Progressing, and Mr. Fitz set to work. Progressing began to act up badly. "Stop trying to put your paw in Wendel's pocket," said Mr. Fitz. He bent under the fidgeting horse, tapped him lightly on the knee with his wooden cane and scolded: "Stop that!" Progressing stopped it. "Maybe he just wants to run," said Mr. Fitz hopefully...