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Word: catnap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disarming G.I.s and cops would force Congress to kill the measure. That didn't happen, and the measure was passed during the gargantuan, all-night effort to avoid a government shutdown. Before the potential implications for the military had become clear, Lautenberg was pleased. He had taken a predawn catnap in the Senate cloakroom and awakened to a beefed-up bill. "A spouse is a spouse is a spouse," he says, "and we can't excuse that kind of behavior, even for a soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FAREWELL TO ARMS | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...night (epiphany not too long ago, was it?) i reconciled the false world-historical contradiction between ethics and aesthetics. (irony: the resurgent dawn of nihilism.) I probably should've written it down, but i plead 'catnap': coerion by my spiteful and neglected excuse for a body: the revenge of R.E.M. Or was that a dream? Is not this a dream? Of course, isn't 'sleep' still a prerequiste for 'dreams...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: ?...! & !...? | 5/18/1994 | See Source »

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