Word: siesta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glass of wine, a siesta-and a rare day off from the easel. Joan Miró decided to take it easy on his 85th birthday. "The older I get, the more I do," he said. Laboring seven hours a day in his hilltop studio on the Spanish island of Majorca, he finishes one or two works a week and has also completed a tapestry for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. An especially exciting prospect is an upcoming retrospective exhibition in Madrid, to be opened by King Juan Carlos. It will mean that after 40 years of Franco...
Once in the lead Harvard took a brief siesta from aggressive play, which amounted to the next 19 minutes, and had it not been for the heroics of John Hyne in the Crimson cage, overtime would never have come...
...kindled autumn leaves, and the dance team of three women and four men are, collectively, a card hand of sev en aces. One member of the chorus, Roger Minami, provides ebullient comic relief in Arthur in the Afternoon, a number out lining the rejuvenative virtues of a daily adulterous siesta...
...icemen awoke from their middle period siesta to play aggressive hockey for the first half of the third. Freshman Jon Garrity registered his first varsity goal at 6:53 on assists from John cochrane and Jon Schuster which made the score 4-0 Harvard and turned most thoughts to the question of whether or not Crimson goalie Brian Petrovek would chalk up a shutout in the season's first contest...
...chose Spain for a major investment," says a senior official in Ford's European headquarters. Things are running smoothly there now. But since bodies for all the Fiestas assembled in Europe will be manufactured chiefly at the Ford plant in Valencia, Spain, a strike could mean a long siesta for Ford workers in other countries...