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Word: overe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The next day we're off, Varadero to Cienfuegos. First passengers, from a roadside crowd of 15 or 20: a mother-and-child duo, the mother skinny and snaggle-toothed, the baby perfect and in pink, 11 months old, little black shoes, shiny; they're headed home. We roll with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

But the Subaru won't start. It won't even turn over. In a flash, Esteban is out of the car and pushing. I'm driving, and he's barking orders, which need to be translated instantaneously by T/N. I have no idea what we're doing. We stop. Esteban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

We dodge more wagons, their drivers frequently asleep, the donkeys as sad as donkeys insist on appearing. There are men in uniform waiting for rides. There are women with groceries and babies waiting for rides. Some of the hitchers raise their hands to a passing car, but most don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

We drop Estelle and Javier in Australia and pick up a family just outside of town. Grandfather, mother, daughter. They had been visiting a friend at the hospital and are going where we're going, to Playa Giron, home of the Cuban monument to the heroes of the Bay of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Ten miles and Jordan gets out at a tiny town called Pepito, where Condela gets in. Condela is about 45 and has crumbs all over his mouth and hands--he has been eating a pastry while waiting for a ride, standing just outside a bakery. He's a butcher in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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