Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours. . . . But at sea the radio messages and the occasional pouch of mail reduce official work to not more than two or three hours a day." " there is a chance for a bit of sunshine or a wetted line, or a biography or a detective story or even a nap after lunch. Above all, there is the opportunity for thinking things through. . . . That means that if today the fellow next to you catches a bigger fish than you do, or vice versa, as sometimes happens, you don't lie awake at night thinking about it. ... "You still seek peace...
...Polynesian opera, the music for Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet. Last week a Philadelphia production of a new one-act Nordoff opera, The Masterpiece, proved the most diverting event of a season in which the LT. S. lyric theatre had been taking a nice nap...
...high-heeled slippers' and, stocking-footed, dropped her third shot 5 feet 6 inches from the cup. But today, unless they occur at after-theatre parties,' she has little time for diversions of any sort. When she is not at the theatre or taking her daily afternoon nap (which consists in piling right into bed, even if it is only for ten minutes), she works like a high-spirited horse for British relief...
...moon set soon after midnight in a swirl of blowing sand. Everything was ready. The main body had sneaked up in a remarkable rush, from Matruh the day and night before, 60 miles in one haul, and now they settled down on the cold sands for a valuable nap. Mechanized forces had deployed earlier in a sharp curve to the south and west, using the moonlight to dodge scrub and big desert boulders...
After their heavy meals, Mexicans take a nap, but Avila Camacho had no siesta last week. Day & night the streets around his Mexico City house were jammed with cars for two blocks. Each morning there were close to 150 names on his waiting list-people waiting for positions, men with axes to grind and hates to vent. Through it all, Avila Camacho remained calm, and kept the pleased expression of a man with a fish on his line...