Word: canings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When shaggy-haired William Alexander Bustamante tours the Jamaican countryside, field hands from the cane and banana plantations crowd around him singing a native song called We Will Follow-Bustamante Till We Die. Last week it was clear that the chorused pledge was something more than a catchy calypso lyric. In the British island's general election, Bustamante and his Labor Party squeezed back into power for a second five-year term. It was Bustamante's faithful plantation workers, overpowering the heavy urban vote rolled up by the rival socialist People's National Party, who saved...