Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 8:45 and 1 p.m., Editor Freeman sees visitors and conducts business. At 1 he puts on his second daily broadcast. Then he goes home, lunches and at 3 p.m. takes a nap. When he wakes up he feels that a second day is beginning-his day to study history and do his scholarly writing. Instead of using a typewriter, Biographer Freeman prints his manuscript in a microscopic hand. At 6:30 he dines with Mrs. Freeman; at 8:45 he retires...
...Southern gentleman" who "worked in the fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office...
Like Rip Van Winkle, utility preferred stocks last week snapped out of a long nap. In the stockmarket they started climbing briskly on greatly increased trading volume. At week's end the senior shares of American & Foreign Power were up two and three points to new 1942 highs (double the year's lows); Electric Power & Light preferreds had jumped five and six points; Electric Bond & Share preferreds were up more than six points; Empire Gas & Fuel 8% preferred topped a phenomenal rise with eight more points to hit 166⅞ - an alltime peak and nearly double the year...
Shut-Eye Weakness. It is not clear whether Air Chief Marshal Brooke-Popham himself understood what it ought to mean. Surprisingly, for an airman, he represented the old school of the British Army. Although the Singapore custom was to take an afternoon nap, he began to drop off at odd and inconvenient hours-in conference, at dinner parties. He was full of a super-Anglo-Saxon complacency, told the public and his superiors that he was ready for come-Hell...
Then one night while Secretary of War Cameron "turned over for another nap," the Marylanders burned the railroad bridges on the Harrisburg and Philadelphia lines. Washington had no mail or newspapers. The telegraph "faltered on" until rioters seized the Baltimore office. Washington was left "in silence, isolation and fear...