Word: catnaps
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...bevy of Cadillacs, where the mob grows to 50 or 100 until Frank suddenly stands alone against a sky-blue set and moves his mouth expressively, while his voice drifts out of a distant amplifier. At the first break he piles into a box lunch, then takes a catnap. There are some dialogue loops to make, and then across town in his colossal Cad ("I like lots of armor around me"), with brooding on the way about "them Giants," happy cackling about "Rocky" Marciano or the fun he will have with the boys at Toots Shor...
Immediately after the state funeral for Taft, the President picked up Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche (who was in Washington for the funeral) and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, boarded his silver Constellation and took off for the Northwest. On the way. he managed a brief catnap in one of the plane's berths; ten hours and 2,507 miles later, when the big Connie came down through grey clouds at Boeing Field, Seattle, he looked fresh and chipper. That night at the governors' black-tie dinner. Ike unexpectedly turned up as just another guest to listen...
...morning had evolved a theory of human consciousness that put him, he felt, many years ahead of the psychologists. A year after that he spent a week staring into the open fire in his Paris apartment, occasionally knocking off to munch a crust, take a bath, or catnap on the floor for an hour or so. At the end of it-through "sheer imagination," since he was no mathematician-he had evolved a "mystical realization" of the theory of relativity, which put him in a class with Einstein...
...195th game of the Harvard-Yale baseball series went to Harvard yesterday afternoon when the Crimson scored a 17 to 3 rout over the visitors from New Haven. It was the 93rd Catnap triumph, achieved before a partisan crowd of 6700 reunions...
After their long political catnap, the Conservatives were at last thoroughly awake, worked harder than Labor to get out the vote. By week's end, the Conservatives had captured a prize beyond their fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...