Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only an irreducible minimum of White House aides. Twenty-three reporters and cameramen were isolated well astern in an escort vessel, the destroyer escort Weiss. As the yacht headed downriver under a grey, drizzling sky, Harry Truman stretched, left his guests and strolled off to his stateroom for a nap...
...started the season playing the fancy kind of ball Boss Jorge Pasquel paid them for, by last week were looking pretty sad. The league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers were doing better. Pasquel's favorite club, Vera Cruz, well...
...After a nap, the 212-lb. champion climbed into the ring for a workout. His lethal right hand, the payoff weapon, looked like a lead weight. His left seemed to have lost its old lightning. His legs had thickened at the thighs. Said Joe: "I know I look lousy. . . it's just the way I planned it." He knew that the time to look good was for one hour on the night of June 19, in Yankee Stadium...
...first time the Parker Pen Co. has turned thumbs down on making a lot of easy money. We voluntarily produced many millions of dollars' worth of munitions on a no-profit basis. It's things like that maybe that enable one to take a nap without bad dreams. Also, we want to stay in business another 58 years...
While Langer argued, banged his fist, blew his nose, mopped his brow, Washington's blond Warren Magnuson, at the presiding officer's desk, signed his mail. The Senate restaurant was kept open; the jammed galleries tittered and yawned; all but half a dozen Senators creaked out to nap in the cloakrooms. At 7:30 p.m. they were summoned back to the floor by a Langer quorum call. They found the sagging North Dakotan chewing the mangled end of a cellophane-wrapped cigar...