Word: siestas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright autumn sunshine, the plight of Italy's pensioners was dramatized in a way that stung the conscience of the nation. Emerging from his office onto the bustling Via Nazionale, mustachioed Leopoldo de Virgilio, 40, head of the Ministry of Defense personnel section, headed home for his midday siesta. As he reached the corner of Via Napoli, a heavy-set man confronted him and asked: "May I have two minutes of your time?" Recognizing Laborer Galvino Lepori, 53, De Virgilio replied in annoyance: "I have nothing to say that you don't know already." At that, Lepori pulled...
...only authority is the cocky rebel army. "There is no trouble here, señor," said Lieut. Ramón Pérez, 32, commander of a tiny highway garrison called El Cobre, rousing himself from his afternoon siesta. Pérez' men had manned a .30-cal. machine gun on the guardhouse roof, and they stopped and searched all passing trucks. "If anybody we stop does not have identification-prisoner!" grinned Pérez. Off duty, the bearded, long-haired soldiers lounge about reading the leftist official army organ. Olive Green. Slogan: "The army is the people...
...Parliament needs shaking up: "There are still far too few ex-Prime Ministers. Governments must change repeatedly. The formation of parties pledged to make the constitution unworkable will help. Oil must be discovered in enormous quantities, except between the hours of twelve and four, which will be observed as siesta time...
...start against some sturdy youngsters from Bridgeport, Conn, at 2:30 p.m. Coach César Faz studied his skinny, undersized squad (averaging 4 ft. 11 in., 92 lbs.), saw all the signs of fatigue and made a reasonable request. "That's when my boys usually take a siesta," he said. "Can't they play in the second game...
...Chief-of-Staff General Nguyen Thanh Phuong, who is now an avowed supporter of Premier-President Ngo Dinh Diem. "The time has come," said General Phuong one day last year, "for a good sweep of brooms down at the Holy See." The general surprised the Cao Daist "Vatican" at siesta time, disarmed the 400-man papal guard and clapped a score of corrupted princes of the church, including the pope himself, under house arrest...