Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does, and do it just as right and just as quick. They have to take the standard three hours a week of physical training, in addition to their hour and a half of daily football practice. Says Cadet Glenn Davis: "I never used to think about taking a daylight nap. Now I get sleepy every time I see a sofa." The two breaks that the 38-man football squad gets over the other 2,500 Cadets are: 1) a seat at the training table, where steaks and ice cream are more fre quent; 2) an occasional chance to leave barracks...
Chicken Again. At the First Baptist Church he listened attentively to the sermon, dropped a $1 bill into the collection plate. Lunch (by the Presbyterian ladies) was Missouri ham. The schedule called for a nap after lunch. But a bunch of "40-and-8" Legionnaires were whooping it up on the street around a mock locomotive, and calling for Harry Truman. He mounted the contraption, posed for many pictures. Then someone yelled: "Ring the bell." Harry Truman yanked the rope, clanged the bell hard and long. The crowd was delighted. So was the President...
...hurry downtown from their own shows for her midnight turn, and a contingent of soldiers & sailors, who usually stay for two or three performances and try to buy her drinks. But freckled, green-eyed Susie always refuses. Between shows she generally walks home to nearby Charlton Street for a nap...
...great Charles A. Dana, and had watched the Sun go down because it cared more for fluff than fact. A fact man himself, "V.A." was quiet, modest, a hard worker. He spent every afternoon from 1 to 6 in the office, took four hours off for dinner and a nap; then at 10 he returned to bustle over the proofs, spot weaknesses, and stay until 5 a.m. to get all the news...
Hopkins' daily routine is similarly, and deceptively, simple. He gets to the office at 9:30 a.m., goes back to his Georgetown home for lunch, takes an hour's nap, and is back in the office by 3, remaining until 5:30. Sometimes, but not very often, he takes a sheaf of papers home at night. He has only one fixed appointment a week: the Wednesday morning meeting of the Munitions Assignments Board. But even though he is chairman, he often skips that. He usually sees the President daily, although there are days when they merely talk by telephone...