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  • The way he made his money was simple-he started as a bootlegger, accumulating wealth throughout Prohibition by running rum up from Cuba.†   (source)
  • She took such a liking to the soap operas from Santiago de Cuba that she waited with impatience for each day's new episode.†   (source)
  • Cuba.†   (source)
  • There was a broadcast of a speech by this man Fidel, who is trying to overturn their dictator over in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Still gazing, Farmer said, "To understand Russia, to understand Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Boston, identity politics, Sri Lanka, and Life Savers, you have to be on top of this hill."†   (source)
  • Moses was an old-line Communist, and I told him that his opposition was like the Communist Party in Cuba under Batista.†   (source)
  • They don't play polkas in Cuba.†   (source)
  • I fiddled with my radio until I found a report that an early tropical storm was shifting north from Cuba and might hit the keys with hurricane force winds by nightfall.†   (source)
  • They went to Cuba.†   (source)
  • Moreover, for Russians the island of Cuba was as exotic as Tahiti, a promised land of white sand beaches and dusky girls.†   (source)
  • Because the Russians had put missiles into Cuba.†   (source)
  • Its example ultimately prompted France to abolish slavery in 1848, inspired the American abolitionists and the Emancipation Proclamation, and pushed Cuba to enforce a ban on slave imports in 1867, in effect ending the transatlantic slave trade.†   (source)
  • The sub limped toward Cuba.†   (source)
  • On the third floor was a library where there was a table with bullet holes from being overturned and used as a shield by American soldiers during a skirmish in Cuba over a century ago.†   (source)
  • His name was Jeff Buschmann, and he was a football player and a Navy brat who'd been born in Italy, lived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and bounced around the United States from San Diego and Washington on the West Coast to Florida and Maine on the East.†   (source)
  • Here you have this Islamic court in conservative Shia Pakistan offering protection for an American, at a time when America is holding Muslims without charges in Guantanamo, Cuba, for years, under our so-called system of justice.†   (source)
  • In reality, he was born in Cuba.†   (source)
  • First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.†   (source)
  • Now the Mission's rubdown man, he had once been a professional boxer from Cuba.†   (source)
  • Fortunately it happened that my next-door neighbor was a brilliant psychiatrist, Aldo Llorente from Cuba.†   (source)
  • I called my momma on Sundays and told her I was writing about the models on South Beach—and I actually did, once—and promised not to go anywhere near Cuba.†   (source)
  • The Church with all its medieval lunacies once held sway over Cuba.†   (source)
  • Some two hundred years later, in 1979, a lawyer called Maurice Bishop started a new revolution, which the guidebook said was inspired by the Communist dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua.†   (source)
  • Celia del Pino, equipped with binoculars and wearing her best housedress and drop pearl earrings, sits in her wicker swing guarding the north coast of Cuba.†   (source)
  • Al-Qahtani was sent back to Dubai only to get captured in the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001 and sent to the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.†   (source)
  • He must manage the issue with Cuba and its pro-Soviet leader, Fidel Castro.†   (source)
  • It avoids what linguists call the intrusive "r," pronouncing saw as sawr or, as John Kennedy did, Cuba as Cuber.†   (source)
  • He was always flying to Cuba on business.†   (source)
  • Shaw was looking to contract the transport of six hundred slaves from Lomboko to Cuba.†   (source)
  • Then again she spoke of Port Royal and the contrabands, and the strange speech of the Gullahs of South Carolina, and told about how they had said their masters had told them the Yankees had hoofs, horns and tails, and would sell them to Cuba, how they called the Confederates secesh buckra (white men who were secessionists).†   (source)
  • They fed and guarded the stowaways and helped them off in Cuba, New York, Bali, Hawaii.†   (source)
  • He stayed till that war started in Cuba, then he joined the Army.†   (source)
  • They were always talking about islands—Ceylon and Sumatra and Cuba but mostly Madagascar, where they would send the Jews.†   (source)
  • He was studying an advertisement for cigars shipped direct and often from Cuba.†   (source)
  • PLANE NOT DIVERTED TO CUBA.†   (source)
  • Even with Colonel Roosevelt down in Cuba in ninety-eight.†   (source)
  • In 1962, when he discovered that the Soviets were building offensive nuclear missile bases in Cuba, President Kennedy resisted calls for an immediate air strike and pursued a course of diplomacy that averted the catastrophe of nuclear war.†   (source)
  • Now we were heading to Cuba for an AIDS conference.†   (source)
  • But the family never went back to Cuba, and my grandmother never saw her sister again.†   (source)
  • Us ought to go to Cuba, Miss Celie, you know?†   (source)
  • This meant of course that the French ambassador to Cuba would show up at some point.†   (source)
  • "Think of Cuba," Farmer whispered to me.†   (source)
  • He said our conversation had just been the "dismount" of our time in Cuba.†   (source)
  • And it was probably facile to compare the responses of the United States and Cuba.†   (source)
  • This was Cuba, of course, the hemisphere's small, lonely iconoclast.†   (source)
  • All these bwats were supposed to be done before we left Cuba.†   (source)
  • He went on, "Both Guantánamo and Cuba's AIDS sanitorium were quarantines.†   (source)
  • In Cuba, life expectancies were about the same as in the United States.†   (source)
  • Indeed, according to a study by who, Cuba had the world's most equitably distributed medicine.†   (source)
  • For me, Cuba posed a rather abstract question.†   (source)
  • For me, the first sights of communist Cuba were a great relief after Haiti.†   (source)
  • Cuba really was a holiday, by his standards.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure we really had much of an argument over Cuba.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Cuba seemed to have mostly abandoned its campaign to change the world by exporting troops.†   (source)
  • "If I could turn Haiti into Cuba, I'd do it in a minute," he had said rather heatedly a while ago.†   (source)
  • But in Cuba, because of the embargo, he was cut off from his usual electronic routine.†   (source)
  • So in Cuba he borrowed some from Pérez.†   (source)
  • Again and again during our stop in Cuba, Farmer had marveled at the attentions lavished on him.†   (source)
  • He didn't go sightseeing in Cuba either.†   (source)
  • Sister Zoe explained to a wide-eyed classroom what was happening in Cuba.†   (source)
  • To Cuba, where Carlos saved a misfit like himself from execution.†   (source)
  • The majority of Africans were brought to Cuba or Brazil.†   (source)
  • I was an interrogator at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.†   (source)
  • Russians agree to remove missiles and end construction of missile bases in Cuba.†   (source)
  • It occurs to Celia that she has never been farther than a hundred yards off the coast of Cuba.†   (source)
  • Ninety miles from Florida, Fidel Castro is in a rage about ongoing American covert activity in Cuba.†   (source)
  • When he was twenty, Zalachenko was sent to Cuba.†   (source)
  • We are too far from Cuba for help, and we cannot expect help from the Rodina.†   (source)
  • The patrician savored its dark blend of tobaccos from Cuba, Honduras and Sumatra.†   (source)
  • The Joint Chiefs of Staff are irate that JFK did not, and now will not, invade Cuba.†   (source)
  • We're less than two hundred miles from Cuba.†   (source)
  • Sandy Amoros, the legendary Dodger outfielder from Cuba, volunteered to take him in.†   (source)
  • He had read articles in Red Star and other state journals about the joys of duty in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Cuba is still developing, she tells me, and can't afford the luxury of dissent.†   (source)
  • They were near Cuba now, and it was likely that they would see British ships again.†   (source)
  • I'm speaking to a young revolutionary I followed out of Cuba with a great athlete named Santos.†   (source)
  • The president spends Friday, October 26, planning the invasion of Cuba.†   (source)
  • Do we have a secret submarine base in Cuba?†   (source)
  • They seem to be sailing easterly, away from Cuba, but I don't think they have a clear destination.†   (source)
  • And Castro says, Damn we threw the Mafia out of Cuba.†   (source)
  • Cuba is a peculiar exile, I think, an island-colony.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile some old grubby farmer in Cuba is waiting for a carburetor for his beat-up tractor.†   (source)
  • Underneath, the subheads went on: "Slavery Conditions in Cuba Revealed in Detail.†   (source)
  • If we succeed in reaching Cuba undetected by the imperialists—and we will!†   (source)
  • APRIL 17, 1961 — WASHINGTON, D.C./BAY OF PIGS, CUBA 9:40 A.M.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't cheer either if Lou said, "Let's hear it for Cuba."†   (source)
  • The New Orleans FBI office has kept Hosty apprised of Oswald's arrest and pro-Cuba behavior.†   (source)
  • They have had eyes for Cuba for many years now.†   (source)
  • Then you can buy me some rum in Cuba, Comrade.†   (source)
  • And here's us, a stone's throw from Cuba.†   (source)
  • That I miss my grandmother and wish I'd never left Cuba?†   (source)
  • The bottom line for Khrushchev, of course, had little to do with Castro or Cuba.†   (source)
  • The doctor was looking forward to visiting Cuba as much as anyone aboard.†   (source)
  • He told me stories about Cuba after Columbus came.†   (source)
  • It was not like the beach at Lomboko, but neither was it like the whiteman's land called Cuba.†   (source)
  • "I do not want to return to Cuba," he said.†   (source)
  • Castro's ongoing defiance of the United States was keeping his popularity in Cuba very high.†   (source)
  • Nor have they sent their ASW aircraft to stage out of Cuba.†   (source)
  • He will escape Cuba with a fortune in his suitcase, and die of natural causes.†   (source)
  • So he wants his arsenal closer to America, and Cuba provides that opportunity.†   (source)
  • In Cuba we have sanitariums for such slack-witted fools.†   (source)
  • That night, Lourdes dreams of thousands of defectors fleeing Cuba.†   (source)
  • The caption on the back said "Cuba … alegre como su sol."†   (source)
  • Yet, they have learned no Spanish over a supposed lifetime in Cuba.†   (source)
  • JFK has spent the day fine-tuning the upcoming invasion of Cuba.†   (source)
  • In Cuba the costs of revolution are very high.†   (source)
  • All transactions took place in Cuba, a Spanish possession.†   (source)
  • For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites.†   (source)
  • A staunch anti-slavery man, Dr. Madden was returning to England after ten years in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Lourdes knows that Cuba saves its prime food for tourists or for export to Russia.†   (source)
  • He writes to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New York about all he is doing on its behalf.†   (source)
  • And you know, if they take Cuba, Texas will be next.†   (source)
  • In Cuba nobody was prepared for the Communists and look what happened.†   (source)
  • Construction of the missile launch facilities in Cuba is nearly complete.†   (source)
  • And soon I will be taking them back to Cuba.†   (source)
  • I tell her how back in Cuba the nannies used to think I was possessed.†   (source)
  • Unlike the majority of his peers, Oswald believes that the Soviets have every right to be in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Until I returned to Cuba, I never realized how many blues exist.†   (source)
  • He is much too anxious about the events in Cuba to have a seat.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, Mr. Montes claims that these girls are Spanish subjects and have been raised in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Every day Cuba fades a little more inside me, my grandmother fades a little more inside me.†   (source)
  • Instead, he dreams of living in the palm tree–fringed workers' paradise of Cuba.†   (source)
  • He hasn't even told his wife what is going on in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Dad's family owned casinos in Cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Navy soon boards a freighter bound for Cuba.†   (source)
  • I remember the nannies in Cuba with their leaves and rattling beads.†   (source)
  • You still think the fuss about Cuba is unimportant?†   (source)
  • The clouds speed through the darkening skies, probably headed for Cuba.†   (source)
  • I may move back to Cuba someday and decide to eat nothing but codfish and chocolate.†   (source)
  • Its shock and horror will eclipse this news of Cuba and missiles and Soviet lies.†   (source)
  • Mi amor, Have you read about the tidal wave that hit Cuba?†   (source)
  • Azcue concludes by telling Oswald that he will never get the paperwork to enter Cuba.†   (source)
  • It was Khrushchev alone who devised the plan to place missiles in Cuba.†   (source)
  • On the ninth day of my baths, I call my mother and tell her we're going to Cuba.†   (source)
  • But I never made it to Cuba to see Abuela Celia.†   (source)
  • The voters don't give a damn about Cuba."†   (source)
  • When she had first left Cuba, Lourdes hadn't known how long they'd be away.†   (source)
  • His decision to place missiles in Cuba is calculated and ruthless.†   (source)
  • She tells me that before the revolution Cuba was a pathetic place, a parody of a country.†   (source)
  • He doesn't speak Spanish, which he'll need to learn for his new life in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Nobody from Santiago de Cuba ever sweated.†   (source)
  • Oswald believes that Cuba is such a place.†   (source)
  • Lourdes misses the birds she had in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Dad only looks alive when he talks about the past, about Cuba.†   (source)
  • Why don't you go down and report on Cuba's prisons?†   (source)
  • Last Christmas, Pilar gave her a book of essays on Cuba called A Revolutionary Society.†   (source)
  • In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun.†   (source)
  • How will we ever win Cuba back if we ourselves are not prepared to fight?†   (source)
  • Cuba has become the joke of the Caribbean, a place where everything and everyone is for sale.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure Cuba is, but I want to find out.†   (source)
  • Back in Cuba, everybody used to treat Mom with respect.†   (source)
  • Only two months earlier, Lourdes had been pregnant with her second child back in Cuba.†   (source)
  • She tries to picture her first winter in Cuba.†   (source)
  • She remembers what the doctors in Cuba had told her.†   (source)
  • A book on Cuba that Nuper said it would do him good to read.†   (source)
  • Not even he knowed he was coming back here till after he came from that war in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Then it was Cuba for several years.†   (source)
  • Cuba!†   (source)
  • But after her third solitary Tuesday she had it brought back to the drawing room, not to enjoy the sentimental song on the Riobamba station, as she had done before, but to fill her idle hours with the soap operas from Santiago de Cuba.†   (source)
  • EITHER KHRUSHCHEV WILL PULL THE MISSILES OUT OF CUBA OR KENNEDY WILL OFFER HIM SOMETHING TO HELP HIM SAVE FACE.†   (source)
  • In the previous spring, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba had upset Owen; but although that was a disturbing error, it was not adultery.†   (source)
  • I also went to Cuba with a group of Johns Hopkins students to study the island's arts and culture—a trip I used to try to find my long-lost great-aunt and other family members.†   (source)
  • Around Easter my Nelson began to talk about how he would join the liberators once the rumored invasion from Cuba hit our shores.†   (source)
  • My grandparents, Rev. Dr. James Thomas and Winell Thomas, met when he was an eighteen-year-old ministerial student in a small Jamaican parish and she and her parents were newly arrived parishioners from Cuba.†   (source)
  • After all, Fidel would never have won over in Cuba if the campesinos there hadn't fed him, hidden him, lied for him, joined him.†   (source)
  • At sea they picked up Swan broadcasts from a little island south of Cuba as well as Radio Rebelde in Cuba and Radio Rumbos from Venezuela.†   (source)
  • ;Cuba libre!†   (source)
  • ;Cuba libre!†   (source)
  • Farmer also had formal duties in Cuba.†   (source)
  • But I still had in mind the slums of Port-au-Prince and the huts of the central plateau, and Cuba looked lovely to me.†   (source)
  • Cuba had food rationing and allotments of coffee adulterated with ground peas, but no starvation, no enforced malnutrition.†   (source)
  • It's going to be the disease of the century, and it is your responsibility, Gustavo, to stop AIDS from spreading in Cuba.'†   (source)
  • The other quarantine of HIV patients in Cuba, the Cuban government's, had been conducted in a place called Santiago de las Vegas.†   (source)
  • In Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, right next to the Brigham, for instance, infant mortality is higher than in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Because Cuba had acted quickly to clean up its blood supply, only 10 people had contracted HIV from transfusions.†   (source)
  • Sensing this, I'd begun to be relieved of the shallower discomforts I sometimes felt in his company, that I'd felt keenly back in the airport in Cuba.†   (source)
  • He was smiling, and I figured he was looking forward to Cuba, because he said, "No dead babies for a while."†   (source)
  • He told them he dreamed of a new kind of "triangle," doctors from Cuba and money from France coming together in Haiti.†   (source)
  • Farmer hoped to send them to the huge new medical school that Cuba was opening for Latin American students.†   (source)
  • Take a subject like Cuba, for instance.†   (source)
  • He'd pay for this later, but for the moment he was relieved of the requests and duties that e-mail brought him every day, anywhere else but in Cuba.†   (source)
  • Then, it seemed, he got to the heart of the matter: what I was going to write about Cuba, especially about him in Cuba.†   (source)
  • One could argue that the U.S. embargo had protected the island, but then again, back at the start of the epidemic Cuba had engaged in a lot of commerce with Africa.†   (source)
  • He said that he and his boss, Gustavo Kouri, were giving Fidel Castro a report about malaria in Africa when Castro asked, "What are you going to do to stop AIDS from entering Cuba?"†   (source)
  • No question but that Cuba had pulled off something difficult and, in the view from Haiti, enviable—first-rate public health, equitably distributed, in spite of severely limited resources.†   (source)
  • Since its revolution Cuba had achieved real control over diseases still burgeoning ninety miles away in Haiti, such as dengue fever, typhoid, tuberculosis, AIDS.†   (source)
  • Pérez also took him to meet Cuba's chief forensic pathologist, the person who had led the team that had found Che Guevara's secret grave in Bolivia—or claimed to have found it, some would say.†   (source)
  • He told Dr. Pérez about this plan, and Pérez arranged a private meeting between Farmer and the secretary of Cuba's Council of State, a medical doctor named José Miyar Barruecos, known as Choumy.†   (source)
  • If the very warm reception of me in Cuba is portrayed as because I'm thought to be a sycophantic ally of Cuba, then the Cuban doctors' concern for the poor of Haiti would be lost."†   (source)
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