Word: canings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cane in One Hand, Weapon in the Other
...During his first season as coach his back continued to bother him, and he trained his team with a cane in one hand and a weapon in the other. "I think that first season actually helped my back, although I use to hobble home in pain and just fall into my bed." he said...
...effects of this study are reflected in work. The youth are mechanizing the jobs of their parents out of existence. In five or ten years there will be no cane-cutters, only machine operators and technicians...
...they do in the U.S. As long as there is manual labor in agriculture, it will be shared by students, technicians, planners, everyone. Lazara has worked in ten harvests, Hugo in eight. Pedro in five. Alberto thinks the volunteer work he did plating eucalyptus trees was even harder than cane-cutting. "It wasn't planting the trees that was so hard-it was digging the holes...
...Cuba's natural wealth is being developed and where volunteer brigades made up often of young people born in large cities are learning to live, work, and study collectively. (Even Cuban TV is involved in the development of the countryside. Regularly scheduled variety shows frequently are televised live from cane-cutting camps and sugar mills with the workers from each particular location the audiences and active participants.) In this way. Cuba is avoiding the ??emend??s hardships and dislocations caused in non-socialist Third World nations by the steady exodus of former peasants and agricultural families into urban areas, economically...