Word: rum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also the bemused, sardonic connoisseur of everything that suits his appetite. A gourmet when it comes to pheasant, a gourmand when it comes to tamales, a consumer of fine wines and Santa Ines rum, he can deliver laughably erudite and baroque speeches or lead Indian troops on a jungle campaign. His middleman position allows him to see Europe in the light of America, and America in the light of Europe. From the first page, when he looks out his window at the Arc d 'Triomphe and thinks of the volcano that overlooks his own capital, he continually sees affinities...
...them "only as well as I can. I recognize them as good practices, but do not regard them as gospel." Finally, many of his companions live a life that violates fundamental Mormon doctrines. Many of his friends last year smoked dope, he says, and his roommate drinks (a Bacardi rum bottle stands on a nearby table in his suite). When deciding to room with the friends, Ledesma says, "the drinking never came into consideration." It would have for most Mormons, he adds...
...about 65% of the 320,000 municipal workers, the unions have gained an estimated 129% salary increase for their full-time employees between 1961 and 1973, in contrast to an 85.2% increase in the city's private sector. For four days and almost as many nights, the negotiations rum bled on, punctuated by occasional outbursts that could be heard through the closed hotel room doors. "For Christ's sake!" ... "F___ that!" ... "I'm fed up with Gotbaum!" ... "If you think there's garbage in the streets now!" ... "No! I want to negotiate!" Finally, the door opened...
...Third Reich with his dignity somewhat intact, it is unlikely that he will ever free himself completely from the opprobrium of having been so dedicated a servant of Nazism. When it was discovered in 1971, for example, that he had taken a hiking trip to Norway, Oslo promptly declared rum persona non grata...
...They went first to a milking station, where Castro expounded knowledgeably on cattle stock and breeding. He popped in for ice-cream cones for the entourage at a dairy station, announcing expansively: 'They're at government expense.' Then he led everybody into the Santa Clara Rum Co. warehouse, and supervised the sampling of 100-proof rum. McGovern barely sipped the stuff and puckered up. 'Don't light a match,' cautioned Fidel cheerfully. 'The place will blow...