Word: isla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storm's winds overturned cars and stripped roofs off houses and office buildings and sent chunks of concrete plunging into streets in the capital city of San Juan, where one-third of the U.S. commonwealth's 3.3 million residents live. Fifty airplanes were reported destroyed at the airport in Isla Verde...
...affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths, or markers with MAIN ENTRANCE etched across them, and epitaphs of touching rhyme: "Give life the best that's in you/ for it's only a one-night stand./ There...
...father, Obert Miller, had started with a dog and a trick pony. In 1924 Obert brought eight-year-old D.R. into the act. In 1932 D.R. met a fetching young farm girl named Isla at a barn dance in Kansas. In 1934 D.R. and Isla were married. By then Obert Miller's show had grown to four dogs, four ponies and a monkey, a big enough production to accommodate the newlyweds. For their efforts, D.R. and Isla earned a quarter a week to split. D.R. always bought a cigar with his portion, and Isla bought a candy bar with hers...
While I was in prison I also met four Jehovah's Witnesses, all of whom are probably still imprisoned in Combinado del Este. I saw several Protestant churches on Isla de Pinos that had been turned into fertilizer stores. Many Catholic churches have been closed and traditional religious ceremonies banned. The celebration of Christmas has been suppressed, and even the smallest of Christmas trees is looked upon as counterrevolutionary. Only a few people, generally the aged, run the risk of going to church; young people who attend Mass are stigmatized as "enemies of the revolution" and run the risk...
...crop, a major source of income for the impoverished island, and killed at least 50. Before the hurricane cut across Jamaica, Prime Minister Michael Manley pleaded on national radio: "I ask for God's blessing for this night." Though western Cuba was barely scratched, the storm battered nearby Isla Juventud, where 25,000 teen-agers from Third World countries are studying on Cuban scholarships, then swiped at the Yucat...