Word: womanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting a woman who somewhere along the line misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract, in the meliorative principle, in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor...
Improvement in social services, and not in material goods, has bettered the lives of the masses of Cubans. Cuba appears to have suffered enormously from the American trade embargo declared after Castro nationalized American enterprise without compensation. A simply dressed woman who works as a seamstress in central Havana said that although no one is starving, there are no high quality foods and inadequate supplies of what is available. Strict rationing provides her and her fellow workers three cans of condensed milk each month, five pounds of rice, and one pound of meat every nine days. Well into her sixties...
...heavyset black woman who did piecework and was barely able to survive financially under the Batista regime, does not suffer for lack of some freedoms. Today she is a singer in a cultural group, secretary of the union where she works, and a member of the Federation for Cuban Women. With the availability of day care and a guaranteed job, she says the Cuban women have more "liberty" than ever before...
...ironically, a woman who was a steering committee member of her CDR spoke vehemently against the Castro regime, saying that if it were not for her elderly mother she would prefer to leave. Although she lowered her voice when criticizing Castro, she apparently was not afraid to complain to a complete stranger who had wandered into her home accidently after seeing a CDR insignia on her door...
...woman sitting next to me by a pool at a Santiago hotel one day was an American --a Marxist-Leninist, she called herself. I asked her to watch my belongings while I went swimming. "Cubans don't steal," she said angrily, disgusted by my request...