Word: nap
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...Arrive home, go upstairs to find my mother in bathrobe and curlers. She expresses anxiety about the fact that going to see the show involves observing life (let alone drinking beer) after 10:30 p.m. She goes upstairs to take a pre-show nap. I pass out on a chair for 45 minutes and have a strange dream in which an unknown man asks me if I’m enjoying the “fierce.” “Fierce as noun?” I ask him, confused. He looks surprised at my ignorance...
...circuit breaker has been turned off and people are carrying flashlights. We start to load out the equipment in the surreal black. I carry one turntable and it’s the heaviest object I’ve ever carried. I move it into the car and take a nap on CBGB’s upstairs couch...
...real bitch of a summer for Gossip Guy. His lame hometown internship had him working 80-hour weeks copying lies and stapling rumors, while an early June nap in the sun left his innuendo red and peeling for the next two months...
...foreign organization. Little can be done without the help of a law firm that understands the local business customs--like meeting etiquette--that can baffle an American. Just ask Domenikos. During his discussions with NTT, it was not uncommon for the firm's high-ranking executives to nap around the boardroom table, leaving underlings to flesh out the deal's specifics, from the budget to the duration of the contract. Cross-border deals are also riskier. "A deal isn't a deal until money changes hands," Domenikos says...
When Khatol returns home from work, she sometimes takes a nap on her bed, still wearing her uniform. Other times she relaxes in the living room, surrounded by colorful bouquets of paper flowers sent by well wishers. She likes to watch an old black-and-white Soviet-made TV that she borrows from friends, especially "fighting films" with Jackie Chan and Jean-Claude Van Damme. But mostly she frets about the future of women like her sister Lailama, who will find it difficult to make up for the time lost under the Taliban. "There's no difference between the Taliban...