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Word: caning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball talent, more or less simultaneously. At the turn of the century, the game was cultivated by newly arrived American owners of the sugar mills, who sponsored company teams in local competition. The mill workers were good players, in part, it is said, because wielding machetes in the cane fields had strengthened their arms. Ensuing years of team rivalry and the 1916-24 occupation by U.S. Marines helped make America's national pastime San Pedro's major social activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Harvesting Baseball Talent | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...photo placed beneath them, two boys cut with large knives pieces of sugar cane before walls of crumbling brick. They are cutting the cane for a snack as is common in Chile--and in the dirty sunlight, mudged and rumpled, they share a friendship as happily as the well-dressed schoolgirls above them...

Author: By Jonathan M. Ramiak, | Title: Because Time Goes By | 7/30/1985 | See Source »

...houseboat, single-engine plane, camper, two cars and the offices of his three private-detective agencies, turned up a collection of gadgets and paraphernalia worthy of both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia, they found ten 100-oz. silver bars, currently worth some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Brother Makes Three | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...with Pepsi. Until now, the Coke-Pepsi battle has been one largely of words in some of Madison Avenue's best and most memorable advertising. Currently the tag line "Coke is It!" is arrayed against "Pepsi. Choice of a New Generation." About five years ago, when the price of cane sugar went up sharply, Coke began shifting its basic sweetening ingredient to high-fructose corn syrup. Pepsi switched completely to the corn syrup sweetener this year. But the parts of each drink's formula that give the colas their distinctive tastes have remained essentially unaltered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiddling with the Real Thing | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office by his delighted constituents. The following year Laurence Keitt of South Carolina called Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania a "puppy," and about 30 Congressmen, fortified by alcohol, began a free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Will Veto Again and Again | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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