Word: catnap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back in the U.S., his first concern was for sleep. After a catnap in Manhattan, he buzzed off to Washington, got a full seven hours in his Wardman Park suite. Next day at a press conference, he told newsmen that criticism of his trip did not bother him. "My hide is very thick," he said...
...Manhattan song pluggers gathers daily in the Gateway Restaurant, a minute's dash from NBC's Radio City studios. Here they compare their own and their rivals' successes in a radio log which lists all network song performances of the night before. After dinner, they catnap in a newsreel theater until the nightspots open. The pluggers spend an hour or so in each of the most popular spots, strategically seated at tables where they can vie with a dozen competitors for the eye and ear of influential bandleaders...
...Presidential party proceeded northward through the mountains, drove with lights out, reached Tuquerres at 2 a.m. There the President took a catnap. He then caught a plane back to work in Bogot...
...each camp for supply dumps 30 and more miles away. They shun paved roads and blindly poke their painful way across country. Speeds are four to six miles an hour. For days on end, service troops spend less than four of every 24 hours in bed. They try to catnap in trucks grinding across the choppy desert; it is like sleeping in a concrete mixer...
...them got any sleep. Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, commanding the 154th Brigade of the New York Guard, waited bravely for the attack at the Wrightstown-Lakewood crossroads. When along toward dawn it did not occur, he rolled up in his blanket and took a 60-minute catnap on the roadside...