rum

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Afterward, thousands of giddy fans thronged the malecón, Havana’s seaside promenade, laughing and drinking rum.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

Its exports are largely limited to cigars, rum, nickel and cobalt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The Browns had a hand in everything from ironmaking and rum distilling to whaling and the slave trade.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

The easiest way to make a non-boozy Piña Colada is to take out the rum.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

If we lost our cattle, we’d be in a lot of trouble because we’d have no way of getting rum and the things we needed to run the store and the tavern.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier