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Word: siesta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Usage:

After their heavy meals, Mexicans take a nap, but Avila Camacho had no siesta last week. Day & night the streets around his Mexico City house were jammed with cars for two blocks. Each morning there were close to 150 names on his waiting list-people waiting for positions, men with axes to grind and hates to vent. Through it all, Avila Camacho remained calm, and kept the pleased expression of a man with a fish on his line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New President, Old Job | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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