Word: siestas
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...liveried flunky discreetly roused dapper, white-haired Ramón Serrano Suñer from his siesta. "Two gentlemen to see you, sir, on a most urgent matter...
...interviews. (Grumbled one Ecuadorian: "I didn't have time even to greet him properly.") At 1:30 he passed up Ecuador's hearty midday meal, raided an office icebox for sandwiches and milk straight from one of his own farms, then got to work again. "What, no siesta?" exclaimed incredulous Ecuadorians...
...hour siesta drew to its close, life stirred along Havana's Prado. Shoeshine boys and maracas salesmen lolled under the laurel trees. English-speaking pimps eyed the few tourists who were waiting for the smart leather and perfume shops to open...
...interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope glanced at the clock which, together with a tall white crucifix and a telephone, was the only ornament on his desk. There was just time to reach Monsignor Domenico Tardini, State Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs, before Tardini's daily siesta. Shown the letter, Tardini raised his eyebrows. "Banking and industry!" he exclaimed. In all his long diplomatic career he had never had anything to do with either. "Very surprising!" he said...
...like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening for two at one of the small nightclubs...