Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only retires there during crises-he reads, holds conferences, sees movies, listens to the radio, eats, sleeps and worries about not sleeping there. He wakes up ten times every night, and has by his pillow ten kinds of sleeping potions. Because of his insomnia he likes to nap during the day, and has frequently been caught snoozing through Diet speeches. He has the Japanese delicacy, raw fish, dipped in boiling water before he will eat it; and he sterilizes apples with a spray of alcohol. He scarcely uses alcohol for anything but a disinfectant, however, and smokes little...
...Brooklyn, it was a terrific day. Not only was this the Dodgers' first no-hit, no-run victory since famed Nap Rucker turned the trick in 1908* but it was their ninth successive victory this season-an opening winning streak equaled only once before (New York Giants of 1918) in the history of modern major-league baseball...
...saving grace of a swift mind that has dwelt long on the ironies of politics-Burt Wheeler has lived a half-dozen lives, every one at top speed, except for brief intervals of catnapping on his office couch. "Nearly everything, except perhaps dinner, seems less important after a nap," says Mr. Wheeler...
...playing in Boston leads a hectic life. Up at 11 in the morning, breakfast then the funnies and fan mail. "Flash Gordon's my favorite, he's so well drawn," Corbina confessed. Voice lessons and rehearsals take up most of the afternoon and then she takes a quick nap before the evening show...
Away from telephones, snow, gloom, pressure, rumors and Term III, Franklin Roosevelt could take off his coat, sit in the sun, nap, read a murder mystery, flip cigarets into the blue Gulf waters-perhaps smile at the revival of the 1939 rumor* that he would meet heads of European Governments in midocean, there settle the world's hash. Last week he could have killed the rumor with a wink or a lifted eyebrow...