Word: caning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Castro noted in his speech that at nine sugar refineries under construction in the country, 60% of the components were produced in Cuba. He maintained that mechanization had increased to the point where 100,000 sugar-cane cutters were doing the work formerly done by 350,000, and that similar productivity gains applied to other branches of industry. Castro heaped scorn on some other Latin American nations, particularly Brazil, where huge foreign debts accompany "constant reports of social calamities, unemployment, hunger, inflation...
...that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes to mind that Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter, was presented with a walking cane by Vermonters when he became President...
...windy presenter said that the President, like the hickory cane, was unbending, un yielding and several other ways of saying "stiff." Coolidge, the soul of taciturnity, took the cane, sighted down the shaft, said "Ash," and sat down.) Lyle gives the impression that renovating the house made his nose feel like a paymaster's window. So far, $25,000 has been eaten by the structure. And in thinning his purse, the innkeeper says he has learned something about the Yankee tradesman's sense of priorities. If, for ex ample, the Wolfs' prehistoric heating sys tem goes blooey...
...languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would probably be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...
...observes Mark Cane, associate professor of oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "there are a lot of signs that things are returning to normal." The atmospheric pressure gap between the eastern and western Pacific has eased, and trade winds are again blowing normally, from the east. Sensors in drifting buoys have recently recorded water temperatures in the mid-Pacific of 81°F, down by nearly 8°F from their May highs. Along the South American coast, waters remain unnaturally warm (as much as 6°F above their normal 78°), but the waters have slowly begun...