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  • I can always come in on the glow from Havana.†   (source)
  • It is 7:43 A.M. and she has made the seventeen-mile journey from Havana to Santa Teresa del Mar in thirty-four minutes.†   (source)
  • With blood running in the streets of Havana, it was only a matter of time before America comprehended the truth.†   (source)
  • She began to imagine a romantic weekend in Havana.†   (source)
  • Shaw lived like a gentleman in Havana and frequented only the most exclusive of the city's restaurants and salons.†   (source)
  • All of them are Communists trained in Havana.†   (source)
  • When the plane descended toward Havana, Farmer stared intently out the window, making exclamations.†   (source)
  • Not long after we'd arrived in Havana, Farmer had asked, "Are we going to see some patients, Jorge?"†   (source)
  • Up ahead we could see the check-in point for the charter flight to Havana.†   (source)
  • It lay about an hour's drive from Havana.†   (source)
  • Celia smells the ocean from the highway, smells it all the way to Havana.†   (source)
  • If I lose the glare of Havana we must be going more to the eastward, he thought.†   (source)
  • It wa-s wonderful to be in Havana, and wonderful to be Pepe Ruiz, a rare man of singular advantages.†   (source)
  • The straight shot down to Havana is brand-new territory.†   (source)
  • America had severed diplomatic relations with Havana.†   (source)
  • He is standing on the Paseo Prado with Havana harbor in the background.†   (source)
  • We will go back to Havana where you will all be put on trial for proper justice.†   (source)
  • Singbe turned his eyes back out through the bars and watched the citizens of Havana pass by.†   (source)
  • Such a high-profile appearance in Havana was his way of thumbing his nose at U.S. law enforcement.†   (source)
  • Querido Gustavo, Yesterday, I took the bus to Havana to join the protesters in front of the palace.†   (source)
  • As they leave Havana, a brisk rain falls, rattling the tin bus.†   (source)
  • They will lock them up, give us the key, and an escort back to Havana.†   (source)
  • He would buy bozales in bulk at the Havana market, anywhere between thirty and sixty at a time.†   (source)
  • Rufino was in Havana ordering a cow-milking machine when the soldiers returned.†   (source)
  • And I love Havana, its noise and decay and painted ladyness.†   (source)
  • Amistad left the small harbor near Havana on the night of June 28.†   (source)
  • Perhaps my mother should have approached Havana by sea.†   (source)
  • They will be judged in Havana and burned at the stake, I dare say.†   (source)
  • When the captain arrived in Havana, however, he demanded an additional 30 percent markup.†   (source)
  • Lourdes speeds along the highway to Havana.†   (source)
  • Havana was alive with movement and brilliant color.†   (source)
  • Her daughter was born eleven days after El Líder rode in triumph to Havana.†   (source)
  • Felicia's skin appears enameled in pinks like the wallpaper of Old Havana inns.†   (source)
  • In Havana, the traffic is jammed in every direction.†   (source)
  • It reminds me of Havana when I was a girl.†   (source)
  • She takes the bus to Havana every afternoon and doesn't come back until late at night.†   (source)
  • She finally dials her sister Felicia's number in Havana.†   (source)
  • I remember our spring walks through Havana.†   (source)
  • Tell her she must drive us to Havana right away!†   (source)
  • At night, Papi said, he could hear the moans of the ships leaving Havana.†   (source)
  • Ted Stone called him "a Communist trained in Havana."†   (source)
  • I stood in the cell that held Nelson Mandela for eighteen years on Robben Island, and I searched for family in a small Cuban town outside Havana.†   (source)
  • My grandmother's parents left Havana in the 1930s in search of work; at the time Jamaica was an island of relative prosperity amid the worldwide Great Depression.†   (source)
  • I noticed a group of prostitutes on one main road, and housing projects in need of paint and repair, like most buildings in Havana.†   (source)
  • On this trip, most of what he saw of old Havana he glimpsed through the windows of Dr. Pérez's Lada.†   (source)
  • Another night we had dinner in a restaurant said to have been one of Hemingway's favorites—there were probably almost as many of those in Havana as in Key West—men with guitars surrounding the table to sing "El Comandante," the mournful ballad of Che.†   (source)
  • We drove back toward Havana.†   (source)
  • On the ride into Havana, I got my first glimpse of a Cuban political billboard, a gigantically enlarged version of the famous photograph of Che Guevara in a beret, and I was reminded that an American who found anything good to say about Cuba under Castro still ran the risk of being labeled a communist stooge.†   (source)
  • Then I should see the glow of Havana.†   (source)
  • Many of the bettors had asked for a draw because they had to go to work on the docks loading sacks of sugar or at the Havana Coal Company.†   (source)
  • Marina Oswald will later claim that Lee Harvey even planned to hijack an airplane that would take him directly to Havana.†   (source)
  • They were moving more slowly now and the glow of Havana was not so strong, so that he knew the current must be carrying them to the eastward.†   (source)
  • Behind the scenes, America's organized crime bosses such as Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano were as comfortable in the Cuban capital, Havana, as they were in New York City.†   (source)
  • The successful fishermen of that day were already in and had butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks, with two men staggering at the end of each plank to the fish house where they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana.†   (source)
  • The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one bad joke in the nonstop series of ExComm meetings is that Bobby Kennedy will soon be mayor of Havana.†   (source)
  • As early as February 1947 there were reports that he had vacationed in Havana with Luciano and his bodyguards, and that the trio were seen together at "the race track, the gambling casino, and at private parties."†   (source)
  • If God wants any more of my Africans, he'll have to bid on them at the market in Havana like everyone else.†   (source)
  • Well, Mr. Chief, we shall see how exalted you feel when your black carcass is being burned at the stake in Havana.†   (source)
  • Singbe and Grabeau had been in Havana for ten days, coming to the city under the cover of night from the outlying jungle.†   (source)
  • Madden told of the baracoons and how Africans were off-loaded regularly at small harbors surrounding Havana.†   (source)
  • Havana Pepe's eyes lingered on the two girls sleeping on the bed while his hands mechanically put on his clothes.†   (source)
  • There were also tellings of their ordeals on board the Amistad, in the Havana slave market, and of their capture and voyage from Africa.†   (source)
  • Two days later they dropped anchor in a secluded harbor about fifteen miles up the coast from Havana.†   (source)
  • Every once in a while he would rattle off a long stream of Spanish, berating the Africans and saying, "Wait until we get back to Havana.†   (source)
  • La Madrina told me she had to fashion Felicia's necklaces from the beaded curtains of a restaurant in Old Havana.†   (source)
  • Two days later, on leave from his jail cell in New York City, Pepe Ruiz jumped bail and boarded a ship back to Havana.†   (source)
  • , and a devotee of Havana's most notorious fleshpots, broke his clavicle dancing with the widow Doña Victoria del Paso.†   (source)
  • "" "Your Honor," Hungerford protested, "these negroes are certainly slaves, legally purchased and paid for in the slave market of Havana.†   (source)
  • "A storm could blow them off course and force them into a nearby port for refuge, a port such as Havana, say," he said.†   (source)
  • The day after his grandfather dies, Ivanito asks his mother if he can go to the Hungarian circus in Havana.†   (source)
  • When Lourdes learns that dozens of people have taken refuge in the Peruvian embassy, she rushes to Havana to investigate.†   (source)
  • But unlike the cages in Lomboko, these stood at the center of a city, Havana, and at the convergence point of two great open-air markets.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that the Mafia runs Don Guillermo's casinos and that he lunches with Batista on Thursdays at the Havana Yacht Club.†   (source)
  • A writ of habeas corpus would only be an invitation for them to flee prosecution for their crimes of mutiny, murder, and thievery, prosecution for which should rightly take place back in Havana.†   (source)
  • They looked good in the outfits that had been supplied by the Amistad Committee, and he was sure that when they returned to Havana, he would be able to get top dollar for each of them.†   (source)
  • His name is Rufino Puente, and despite the fact that he comes from one of the wealthiest families in Havana, he's a modest young man.†   (source)
  • But Celia soon grew to love Havana, its crooked streets and the balconies like elegant chariots in the air.†   (source)
  • He went down to his cabin and shut the door, not opening it again for anything except to receive food and pass the chamber pot until the ship weighed anchor in Havana harbor.†   (source)
  • The Spaniards, Mr. Ruiz and Mr. Montes, have submitted genuine documentation that states the other negroes in question are in fact slaves, legally purchased on the Havana market.†   (source)
  • Abuela says she was saved because her parents sent her to live with her great-aunt in Havana, who raised her with progressive ideas.†   (source)
  • Along with entertaining the claims of Ellsworth and Green, the court would also be hearing the testimony of Dr. Richard R. Madden, the British Superintendent of Liberated Slaves in Havana and a self-appointed observer of the Cuban slave trade.†   (source)
  • She grieves in her dreams for lost children, for the prostitutes in India, for the women raped in Havana last night.†   (source)
  • He had heard about the Amistad case and had written to Tappan offering to testify about the conditions of the Havana market, as well as to offer his own evaluation as to whether the blacks were bozales or landinos.†   (source)
  • But every once in a while a wave of longing will hit me and it's all I can do not to hijack a plane to Havana or something.†   (source)
  • All Mom says is that the buildings in Havana are completely decayed, held up by elaborate configurations of wooden planks.†   (source)
  • Legally, the case seemed fairly straightforward to Holabird: a formal hearing, depositions for the record, and then the ship and cargo would be turned over to the Spanish consul in Boston for safe passage back to Havana and eventual prosecution of the slaves under Spanish law.†   (source)
  • One involved the American consul to Havana, Nicholas Trist, who had been accused of accepting cash payoffs in exchange for allowing foreign ships sailing with African-born slaves to sail under the American flag.†   (source)
  • Celia's destination was Havana, with her Great-Aunt Alicia, known for her cooking and her iconoclasm.†   (source)
  • Celia had known him since she was a child, when her mother had sent her from the countryside to live with her great-aunt in Havana.†   (source)
  • We go from Havana to dare.†   (source)
  • When she put me on the daybreak train to Havana, I called to her from the window but she didn't turn around.†   (source)
  • At two o'clock, Celia walks from her little brick-and-cement . house to the highway and hitches a ride to Havana.†   (source)
  • On the way to Havana, I forgot her.†   (source)
  • Milagro and I persuaded her to let us stay by ourselves in Havana instead of going to Abuela Celia's house.†   (source)
  • Celia passes by a theater in Old Havana and recognizes two of her half brothers standing by the entrance.†   (source)
  • I remember my first day in Havana.†   (source)
  • Last fall, the line at the hardware store snaked around the block for the surplus paint, left over from a hospital project on the other side of Havana.†   (source)
  • With the help of some microbrigade friends in the capital, Celia tracks down the santera from east Havana who had diagnosed her in 1934, when she was dying of love for the Spaniard.†   (source)
  • Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Lourdes knew that the little nun, with her puckish face and faint mustache, reminded her father of his barber in Havana, of the smell of his tonics and pomades, of the cracked red leather and steel levers of his enameled chairs.†   (source)
  • She was selling American photographic equipment at El Encanto, Havana's most prestigious department store, when Gustavo Sierra de Armas strode up to her display case and asked to see Kodak's smallest camera.†   (source)
  • Communists trained in Havana.†   (source)
  • Waited to marry her when that rich young Cuban died, so they could take honeymoon to Havana.†   (source)
  • Rhett Butler had brought her a yellow shawl from Havana several months before, a shawl gaudily embroidered with birds and flowers in magenta and blue.†   (source)
  • Seeping through the squalid air of the police station, the sour smell of dirt and disinfectant, came the sweet, rich smoke of a Havana cigar—of two Havana cigars, for the sergeant in charge was smoking also.†   (source)
  • For dessert, there was a sweet potato pie followed by Rhett's bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoy over their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet.†   (source)
  • Athelny smoked cigarettes of Havana tobacco, which he rolled himself.†   (source)
  • Best Sumatra-Havana wrapper, as you can see.†   (source)
  • "In that case, sir, I'm forced to believe that you've kept up relations with Havana."†   (source)
  • "Right," the captain replied, "this tobacco comes from neither Havana nor the Orient.†   (source)
  • But Andrea drew a cigar-case from his pocket, took a Havana, quietly lit it, and began smoking.†   (source)
  • He stood up at his Jacobean desk, gave Gottlieb a Havana cigar, and told him that they had awaited him pantingly.†   (source)
  • Lawrence Selden was among the passengers sailing this afternoon for Havana and the West Indies on the Windward Liner Antilles.†   (source)
  • The announcement of his sailing might have been a mistake—it might be another Lawrence Selden who had gone to Havana—all these possibilities had time to flash through her mind, and build up the conviction that she was after all to see or hear from him, before the drawing-room door opened to admit a servant carrying a telegram.†   (source)
  • This new cargo was destined for the coast of the Duchy of Lucca, and consisted almost entirely of Havana cigars, sherry, and Malaga wines.†   (source)
  • "Try this cigar, Professor Aronnax, and even though it doesn't come from Havana, it will satisfy you if you're a connoisseur."†   (source)
  • "Oh, take it—take it," said the count; "Haidee is almost as civilized as a Parisian; the smell of an Havana is disagreeable to her, but the tobacco of the East is a most delicious perfume, you know."†   (source)
  • …you'd been the onlyman in the worldhusband wouldn't have been in it you wont change your mind and have a smokeI dont smokeIn that case I wont insist even though itis a pretty fair weed cost me twenty-five bucksa hundred wholesale friend of in Havana yes I guess there are lots of changes up there I keep promisingmyself a visitbut I never get around to itbeen hittingthe ball nowfor ten yearsI cant get away from the bank during schoolfellow's habits change things that seem important toan…†   (source)
  • During the Cuban revolution of March, 1917, the newspapers of Havana, objecting to the dispatches sent out by American correspondents, denounced the latter as /los blofistas/.†   (source)
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