Word: cuban
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...exceptional grasp of tactical flirtation, cutting off Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mid-lecture by saying, "Oh, Mr. Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." Somewhere in the background, we glimpse Jack's political evolution from the hothead of the Bay of Pigs to the cool hand of the Cuban missile crisis...
...massive parcel of honey buns, potato chips, Winn-Dixie sugar drink and cigarettes. "I miss my mother," he says. He is interested only in cigarettes. Pantano, a former commodities trader and television producer from New York City, receives clippings from the New York Times and cigars "rolled by a Cuban guy on Ninth Avenue...
...enemy and the Cold War was getting uncomfortably hot in Vietnam and elsewhere. Ten years later, Stills controversially followed through on the message behind those seemingly carefree words he’d once sung—he rocked Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre in a historic Cuban-American music festival...
Annan has also shown a tendency to assume that peace is secured by paper or verbal promises from dictators. An eye-opening example of this came in Feb. 1998, when he traveled to Baghdad following Saddam Hussein’s obstruction of U.N. weapons inspectors. Annan smoked Cuban cigars with the Iraqi tyrant, praised him as a man of “courage” and a “builder,” and cut a deal to keep the inspections going. Before leaving, the secretary-general told a reporter that Iraq had been unfairly “demonized?...
...more serious side, the guide recommends Spanish 40, “Spanish and the Community,” as the best Spanish course at Harvard. La Vida names Montrose Spa Deli, between Harvard and Porter Square, the best place to get a Cuban sandwich...