Word: afternoonish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just when most patrons in late-running Spain are puffing down the aisle to their seats. And, as if no indignity is too much for the burdened Spaniard to bear, the government has ordered restaurants and cafes to pull down their iron shutters at the afternoonish hour of midnight. Wondered an incredulous professor as he sipped coñac at Madrid's longhaired Cafe Gijón (which normally closes at 3:30 a.m.): "If they close the cafes, where are we going to go? It's too hot in the summer to go to sleep so early...
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