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...plus cornflakes and Coke. Cuba's sugar plantations had among the lowest yield in the world; there were no technological innovations since the 18th century. (Migrant laborers who work a 14-hour day are after all cheaper to exploit than machines.) Half the sugar land went uncultivated for the sake of speculation and keeping the world prices up. The situation was: sugar for the international market, but no subsistence crops for the Cubans...
...says. "At one time, if anyone would do something wrong, he would be punished. It isn't a question of the blacks. The police can't do anything." His colleague, Joseph Schaer, objects heatedly: "They gave you 45 stitches. They took my pants, for Christ's sake. It's a good thing they didn't murder me. Yes, I blame blacks...
...Girl, nose to her tail. If they paused or even slowed he would climb up her backside and begin pumping away, though his business could never reach hers. Girl snarled or gave him hot tired looks as if to say "too hot for love" or "men! for God's sake!" Puff puff the constable on the bicycle brought up the rear, hot on the trail of the greatest bust in Palenque history. Merilee's opinion of the cop was some what like Girl's current feeling about Alfred...
Down done down and bleak for Sam's sake, Merilee forced apart his granite knees and settled herself between them, put her feet up over and around his heavy hips. She lifted carefully carefully his heavy paws, one and then the other, onto her knees. Her hands over his. Waited. Looked deep into him, his big black dises. And he did not object. The hassle and the quaking were going to pass now and all her knowledge and strength pass beautifully into...
...sake of efficiency, U.S. citizens have long been willing to give up many of the amenities of life that are common in less complex and slower-paced societies: clean cities, open space, the chance for an afternoon siesta. Until recently, most felt satisfied with the bargain. But now that the U.S. industrial and social system is delivering such "disproducts" as pollution and racial tension and no longer seems to be supplying the compensating efficiency, many Americans feel they have