Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the island 300,000 men and women are doing the same thing, 80 per cent of them are not professional cane-cutters. They come from all kinds of work: near our camp a brigade of cigar and cigarette workers and one made up of people from the Health Ministry were cutting. In all cane-cutting camps, all material necessities-food, lodging, clothing, recreational facilities, and a small medical clinic with both a doctor and a dentist in each camp-are provided completely free. This is true at all agricultural work places and in many factories also...
...belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...
...Cambridge City Council came close to electing a new mayor last night, but in the end, it was no cigar...
American Jewish workers-be they painters, garment workers, or cigar makers-discovered their collective strength not by membership in equivalents of respectable Hillel Societies but by joining, and often leading, their non-Jewish brothers in militant labor organizations. The uprooted, first-generation Jewish immigrants aligned by choice and by necessity with other workers for "the right to live in dignity" (social, political and economic). In helping to build the American labor movement, they gained a foothold for themselves and their families in the new land. As liberal activists, socialists, and Communists, many of them, together with their children, continued...
Chewing a fat cigar and bundled up against a chill wind at Sharm el Sheikh, near the tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Israeli Chief of Staff General Haim Bar-Lev talked to newsmen last week about Israel's military plans. "I regard all Egypt," he said, "as ground for attack." Said another officer: "If they continue to make trouble for us, we will continue to make trouble for them...