Word: nap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office in July. He was busy, had to meet his wife for some reception. So he gave me directions to his place ("the big house," he calls it), and told me to take a swim and a nap and be ready at nine for some party across town...
That afternoon, near Parowan, Utah, Boggs met and murdered his fourth victim He was Warren George Lenker, 25 of Elizabethville, Pa., who was heading back for his senior year at Brigham Young University after a summer in California and had stopped a roadside park to nap in his car. Boggs said that he awakened Lenker, who got out, smiling. "This isn't a laughing matter " Boggs said he told him, then shot him twice in the head. He transferred Lenker's body to the Simca and propped it up "to make it look like he was sleeping." Lenker...
...Kansas City Star. Reporter Art White was a town boy in city territory (Orange, N.J.) who has what might be called a consuming interest in agriculture. After one magnificent dinner at the Shuman farm, both White and his subject had to suspend the interview for an afternoon nap. Researcher Pat Gordon, who comes from Houston and remembers pleasant vacations on her grandfather's ranch in western Texas, is now trying her luck with avocado plants in her apartment in Manhattan...
Doctor's Orders. The astronauts tended to their equipment that floated about weightless. When they dumped urine overboard, the particles froze in the cold vacuum and sparkled like a roman candle as they drifted by. The men tried to nap. But when one stirred in the cramped quarters, the other woke up. "We don't like to see them so fatigued at so early a point in the flight," said Dr. Charles Berry, chief space-flight surgeon. The doctor's orders: Get more sleep. "I try to," yawned Conrad, "but you guys keep giving us something...
...with his human need for love and security showing even in his rebellion -- Reetchie to Endikin: "You're always so cranky after your nap." The play does not provide compelling answers to the, fundamental questions, but it is suggestive and absorbing...