Word: nap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three months Knorke had gained eleven lbs. and was strong enough to leave the City Hospital. When he was sent back to the zoo, Rosemarie went along to take care of him. She spends twelve hours a day with Knorke, including a two-hour nap with him on her own bed. She intends to stay with him for another year...
...Serkin called on his fellow artists to make the festival "an expression of our love, devotion and gratitude for Casals." Pablo Casals was characteristically less concerned about himself than about the music he would not be able to play. "What a pity," he murmured when he woke from a nap under his oxygen tent. "Such a wonderful orchestra...
...lady golf pros' long winter's tournament trek, and the rain-soaked, sidehill fairways of Georgia's Augusta Country Club course sapped the spring from Patty's 39-year-old legs. Between rounds she had to rub them with liniment; she even took an extra nap. "There's no doubt about it," she sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn't win a hamburger with that kind of score. The younger players are pressing...
...President and the State Department, keeping abreast of the Suez crisis and the U.S. efforts to keep the Russian "volunteers" out of the Middle East. At 11 o'clock he would knock off to lie on the beach or go fishing; after lunch he would take a nap or go fishing some more. Each evening before dinner Dulles would invite his one Key West assistant, John Hanes Jr., 32, and his wife Lucy, and perhaps his doctor, to his quarters for cocktails (a rye on the rocks for the Secretary), and there the Middle East would dominate the conversation...
...swing, where the camera closes in on her face while his hands are plainly busy elsewhere ("Oooo," she gasps, "Ah feel so weak"), pushes her toward the brink by the pigpen, and apparently ends up with her in the crib after she coyly suggests that he take a nap ("Yew c'd curl up and let the slats daown"). Later, when the heroine murmurs "I feel cool and rested, rested and cool for the first time in my life," it may strike some moviegoers that the language of Tennessee Williams, no less than his subject matter, often seems...