Word: siesta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just past noon in the capital city of El Salvador, the little Central American country that had undergone a coup d'état only two weeks earlier. As merchants in San Salvador's central business district pulled down their steel shutters for the traditional two-hour siesta, a group of 180 young men suddenly jogged down the street, followed cautiously by a small band of foreign journalists. The joggers, all members of a Trotskyite political group called the LP-28, shouted "Unity!" and carried antigovernment banners. Some also held gym bags and cumbersome parcels-at least...
Frank Trippett's analogies to France, Germany and Japan are poor choices. Most of the U.S. lies south of much of Europe in a climate not always amenable to human endeavors. The choice is not cool comfort vs. "sweatshops"; it is gross national production vs. noonday siesta...
After the lunch-and-siesta break, Siri slipped back; Benelli gained, but never reached more than 36. Ugo Poletti, Vicar Cardinal of Rome, got 30 votes as an unsuccessful compromise candidate. It was becoming clear that the Curial-conservative alliance would not accept Benelli, who had alienated them with his power-wielding at the Vatican; paradoxically, he was now deemed an anti-Curialist, partly for his backing of John Paul I. Nor were Benelli's backers about to vote for a dinosaur like Siri, who had recently been quoted in a Turin paper as saying, "Collegiality? I don't even...
...would take another spectacular play by Woolway to wake the offense from its second half siesta and put the game out of reach. Wit six minutes left, the Woodsmen took over at their own 32 with a clear shot at victory. Faced with a third and three situation at the 39, Teevens rolled left and gunned the ball for tailback Jim, Eden...
Insanity continued to be the rule in Ivy League football Saturday as Yale and Dartmouth lost breathtakers in the closing seconds, and Brown emerged from its early-season siesta to churn through Princeton like an Evinrude in a bathtub...