Word: hammocks
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Meanwhile the object of all this regard, his paunchy body supported in a hammock, was taking his ease at his hilltop finca, Santa Julia. "Tacho" Somoza was nursing a cold and spending as much time as possible with his daughter Lillian Sevilla Sacasa and her four children. Tacho laid his head back, presented his broad, tanned cheeks to his barber...
...Talk. The dictator, now shaven, rolled upright in the hammock and dangled his legs like a man astride a horse. "Nothing," said he, "unites men quicker than a threat, so it was inevitable that we dictators should get together...
...hands of most current novelists, the commonplace and slight story of Nora's indiscretion, Austin's kindly rejection of her advances, and the effects these events have on Austin's wife, pregnant with her second baby, would be something to read in a hammock and forget by dinnertime. Maxwell has made it something more...
...Kids performed summer's immemorial rite and dove into the East River (see cut). Baseball was going full blast and the sports fiends had a startling topic of conversation-old Connie Mack had his A's up on top after 17 years in cold storage. The hammock season was almost here. Just at the moment, it looked like a beautiful morning...
...able to endure the stresses & strains inherent in this high velocity performance. Talk like this was something to which the nation usually listened uneasily. Many a citizen remembered the Great Depression as a more brutal experience than the Great War. But in last week's shade-tree-and-hammock weather, nobody was willing to believe that things were going to blow up, either at home or abroad, the day after tomorrow...