Word: nap
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...common impulse for conquerors to slip off and have a nap in the enemy's bed. That's why I wasn't too surprised to find a man sleeping in Mullah Mohammed Omar's bed in Kandahar. He had his machine-gun next to him, and when I asked him if he was dreaming of Mullah Omar, he growled "I'm too tired to dream," and he covered his head with a wool blanket...
...untroubled conscience that allowed Hutomo Mandala Putra, more familiarly known as Tommy Suharto, to snore through the storming of a rented luxury house by 25 armed police officers. Cynics, on the other hand, might argue that Indonesia's most famous fugitive was taking a mid-afternoon nap in the two-story home in suburban south Jakarta, confident that he faced little chance of serving anything but a nominal jail sentence. Whatever the source of his serenity, the youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto was discovered Nov. 28 seemingly asleep, lounging in a T shirt and shorts...
...Much of the jokes get their humor from this kind of existential shaggy dog structure. Quimby the mouse eats breakfast, takes a nap, rushes to the video store before it closes, chooses movies he's seen before but knows he likes and, in a jump of fifty years, lies on his deathbed in an empty hospital room. Or else, in a series of gags titled Tales of Tomorrow, an overfed man-child makes instant purchases on his view screen and schlurps product through a tube in the wall. A trip to the moon results in his doing more...
...Sept. 11 hijackings pointed up serious lapses in air safety, and it turns out that roads are no less vulnerable. The trucking industry loses as much as $12 billion a year in cargo thefts, which often occur when gun-wielding crooks surprise drivers as they nap or refuel. The robbers typically sell the cargo, if they can, and sometimes unload the big engines as well...
NASA is looking for people to take a nap for $11 an hour so they can experiment with long-duration space flight positions. The lucky 10 subjects will be monitored as they stay in bed for 30 days...