Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charge It. Fidel loved every minute. At an official lunch in the Kremlin, he puffed happily at his cigar, blithely ignoring the unwritten rule against smoking in Khrushchev's presence. He could not miss a visit to the Moscow home of Anastas Mikoyan, his old pal from the October missile crisis in the Caribbean. There was also a duck hunt, a soccer game, and a variety show. And the swans fairly swooned when Fidel went backstage after a performance at the Bolshoi...
...generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face is as rarely photographed and widely unknown as the moon's other side...
...Ludwig Erhard, who sat chewing on a cigar throughout the proceedings, success was too sweet for any thought of revenge against his old foe. He pledged "to forgive and forget" Adenauer's insults. All eyes then swung to der Alte, who swallowed his bitterness, promised to abide by the majority decision. "I am willing," he told Erhard, "to pass along to you all I know ... in the interests of the German people." Then he abruptly stood up, slowly and impassively walked through the crowd to his waiting car, and with a weary wave of farewell, drove home...
...trouble among the vineyard workers of Sanlucar and Jerez. As soon as word of the work stoppage was flashed to Madrid, a Labor Ministry official raced to Cadiz and pressured vineyard employers into bowing to most of the worker demands, including more centimes as well as the second cigar...
...they did their gunning while their women urged them on. There was, for instance, Ma Barker, who moved to St. Paul with two of her four sons in 1933 to set up the most successful kidnaping gang in the Midwest. Ma took the boys to church every Sunday. Tiny, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker ran away from her husband with Texas Gunman Clyde Barrow and celebrated by writing adolescently boastful verses to the newspapers...