Word: siestas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...siesta time in Pnompenh, the capital of faraway Cambodia (pop. 4,500,000). No tamarind leaves stirred in the bright blue sky. In the monasteries saffron-robed Buddhist monks recited their scriptures; in the shuttered bazaars few bothered to tune their radios to a surprise communication from King Norodom Sihanouk, 32, their saxophone-playing monarch who had won Cambodia's independence from the French. "As your King," King" Norodom was saying, "I can no longer be useful to you. I beg you, permit me to leave my gilded cage...
Falla: La Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...
...hangover has become a part of the day as well-allowed for as the Spanish siesta," he philosophized...
...ferrying a favored few thousands to the uncertain havens of Hanoi and Haiphong. Most of Namdinh's 80,000 people are staying on, awaiting the unknown, manning their shops, thronging a market place bright with aluminum pans, preserving the ritual of their noontide siesta. In the siesta, the calm of Namdinh seems to be the calm of a coma...
...Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., a thief returned 150 pennies and a -32-cal. revolver he had stolen from J. D. Molloy, added a note of explanation: "I tried to take these things but my conscience wouldn't let me, and by the way, I oiled your gun." Siesta. In St. Louis, police awakened Adolph Bohnn by pounding on the door of his loan company, told him that during his snooze a burglar had smashed a front window, set off the burglar alarm, pounded off the handle of the company safe with a hammer and an iron...