Word: siestas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every day it was up at 5 a.m., calisthenics before breakfast and work between meals, except for a two-hour siesta after lunch. Meals for the whole day were cooked early in the morning, to keep government planes from spotting smoke. Man, those Huks had a pretty high-class outfit up there. Enough arms and medicines, acres of farms, plenty of bread, even carabaos. They had weddings and dances and pin-up girls. The leaders wore good clothes and their fingernails were manicured...
...surplus" items as a synthetic rubber plant, airplane engines and radio equipment had been put up for sale while the U.S. was frantically remobilizing for Korea. Rubber stockpiling had slacked off while the need loomed greater than ever. "If we find in the other fields," said Johnson, "the same siesta psychology that we found in surplus disposal and rubber, our work is certainly...
...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...