Word: dozing
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Meanwhile, in a corner of the deserted Security Council chamber, in front of a loudspeaker relaying the meeting next door, sat China's neat, dignified Wellington Koo. He was deep in the slumber of an oldtimer who has learned to doze discreetly through such occasions...
Henry Wallace bothers the British experts. They know he is sympathetic to their case, but when he closes his eyes and seems to doze, the British get uneasy. Old Washington hands could tell them that when Wallace falls into this trance-like attitude it really indicates intense interest...
...awakened at 4 a.m. He sleepily rose from his prison cot, donned his seven-star uniform, shuffled into the hushed courtroom. Nonagenarian Marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat nervously at first, then fell into a half-doze...
...attorney began to speak, Holmes whipped out his pocket notebook, took notes. Eagerly he would await what he called the point of contact: "the formula-the place where the boy got his finger pinched in the machinery." Sometimes he caught onto it in the first five minutes, would promptly doze...
...said Holmes, "but it's a damn good thing for people to think it is." When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start, barked: "I wouldn't answer that question if I were you," fell back into a doze. When he lost his temper because his secretary mislaid a book, Mrs. Holmes found the volume, stuck an American flag in it and a big sign: "I AM A VERY OLD MAN. I HAVE HAD MANY TROUBLES, MOST OF WHICH NEVER HAPPENED." When he read the sign, Holmes laughed till...