Word: catnaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...researchers found many pictures of Henry Ford and his pal Edison in laboratories, at meetings and on outings. In some of these photos, Ford seemed attentive and alert, but Edison could be seen asleep - on a bench, in a chair, on the grass. His secret weapon was the catnap, and he elevated it to an art. Recalled one of his associates: "His genius for sleep equaled his genius for invention. He could go to sleep any where, any time, on anything...
...patient's heart and lungs, they drew off some of his blood and then infused only the red cells back to him over a period of several hours. Condon stayed with the patient until his condition stabilized at 7 a.m. then tried unsuccessfully to catch a catnap on a stretcher. At 8 a.m., after a three-minute breakfast of toast and coffee, he was back in the ward starting another...
When James sleeps now, he finds it wiser to keep one eye open--a Confederate catnap, they call it. He is thin and wiry with a lot of freckles on his face. Some say they're the stains of the fiery sarcasm that spits so naturally out of his mouth. His voice is high pitched, like his mother's, and falls easily into evangelical cadences. His record is still clear, now he is married and he will be applying to law school soon...