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Word: montecristo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...Sundays the couple often goes out for dinner, and after the meal Byrd may light up a cigar (a Montecristo or a La Corona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Byrd of West Virginia: Fiddler in the Senate | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...special friend of pretension," Walter Scheel once said. Indeed he is not. He arrived in Moscow three weeks ago wearing a rumpled sports coat, striped shirt and red tie. He puffed on his Montecristo No. 1 cigars steadily throughout the twelve days of negotiations. One night he went on a tour of Moscow nightspots, ending up at the Slavyansky Bazar, a haunt of young Russians, where he danced exuberantly with bemused Russian girls. Certainly he represents a new school of diplomacy, whose members believe in direct and candid contact. To traditionalists he may appear frivolous, if not downright reckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Light Touch of the Genial Rhinelander | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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