Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...moon set soon after midnight in a swirl of blowing sand. Everything was ready. The main body had sneaked up in a remarkable rush, from Matruh the day and night before, 60 miles in one haul, and now they settled down on the cold sands for a valuable nap. Mechanized forces had deployed earlier in a sharp curve to the south and west, using the moonlight to dodge scrub and big desert boulders...
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...
...only retires there during crises-he reads, holds conferences, sees movies, listens to the radio, eats, sleeps and worries about not sleeping there. He wakes up ten times every night, and has by his pillow ten kinds of sleeping potions. Because of his insomnia he likes to nap during the day, and has frequently been caught snoozing through Diet speeches. He has the Japanese delicacy, raw fish, dipped in boiling water before he will eat it; and he sterilizes apples with a spray of alcohol. He scarcely uses alcohol for anything but a disinfectant, however, and smokes little...
...Brooklyn, it was a terrific day. Not only was this the Dodgers' first no-hit, no-run victory since famed Nap Rucker turned the trick in 1908* but it was their ninth successive victory this season-an opening winning streak equaled only once before (New York Giants of 1918) in the history of modern major-league baseball...
...saving grace of a swift mind that has dwelt long on the ironies of politics-Burt Wheeler has lived a half-dozen lives, every one at top speed, except for brief intervals of catnapping on his office couch. "Nearly everything, except perhaps dinner, seems less important after a nap," says Mr. Wheeler...