Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual post-season melodrama of clubhouse brawls and management-player disputes. Instead, baseball's show of shows was a tight, tense struggle between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. It even featured an old-fashioned flap over an umpire's call and an indeterminably aged Cuban pitcher with a penchant for cigars and dramatic performances...
John Kennedy had been a bona fide war hero, but he was concerned a great deal about showing his manhood. He delighted in the story of how he called the big steelmen "s.o.b.s," and in fact it was he who leaked the story. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, an evacuation plan was devised for key people in Washington. It meant that if the crisis grew, the select group would be taken by helicopter to the special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that...
...full. Just behind us a loudmouthed Scandinavian with Cuban sympathies alternately cursed Greyhound, the United States and the youth of America. The youth of America was across from him, represented by Stephen, a harmonica-playing punk, making advances on his seat companion, a blousy young woman with a baby...
...changing their policies and attitudes toward our country. Specifically, what does Castro intend to do about millions of dollars worth of expropriated property of U.S. citizens? What about human rights and his refusal to allow any international body to inspect the political prisons? What about travel rights for Cuban Americans separated from their families in Cuba? These issues require satisfactory answers and are the basis of a resolution I am co-sponsoring with Senator Richard Stone of Florida calling for advice and consent of the Senate prior to any change in our Cuba policy...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger still maintains that a full resumption of U.S. trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba would be "premature." But as the vice president of the Cuban Agrarian Reform Institute, Solano Pinera, told McGovern: "Don't forget, we need about $3 billion in equipment for our new [farm development] program, and we're ready to buy." With that kind of money piled up only 90 miles off Key West, U.S. businessmen are already putting pressure on Washington...