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...eyes. Red because Lester was being a diligent student the night before exams. His mind was crammed with declensions and conjugations and his box of No-Doz was filled with encouragement. The pill-and-pray technique worked well in days gone by, when Lester would study till breakfast, nap till test time, then rise to snear at the men who said, "Gentlemen, this examination will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victimized | 3/24/1955 | See Source »

...those were the old days. This semester Lester still passed the night and wee hours grinding and took the usual nap before breakfast. But he slept right through an eight o'clock hour exam. For this is the day of the eight o'clock agony. Lester was not as fortunate as his instructor who remained blissfully in bed all morning, nor as fortunate as the boy next door who staggered into Memorial Hall ten minutes late with a pajama top on his back and hatred in his heart. He was certainly more rested, however, than the lad who arrived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victimized | 3/24/1955 | See Source »

...Pride greeted them quietly. These were men who measured up to his half-joking credo: "If you find the right man for the right job, you don't have to work nearly so hard yourself."After the conference, followed by a business lunch, Pride took a 30-minute nap, then returned to his work in the same calm, unhurried way. He ended the day at a ship's movie (Susan Slept Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PRIDE OF THE SEVENTH FLEET | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

This week, after a few spoonfuls of gruel and a long nap, the Pope broadcast a message "live" over Vatican Radio and the Basilica's loudspeakers. Into the microphone held before his lips he spoke with effort: "To our dear children of beloved Rome, to whom we feel as close in prayer as we are close to the Divine Master in our suffering . . . we impart, with our hearts turned to the Lord and the Immaculate Virgin, our paternal Apostolic benediction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ordeal in the Vatican | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Alongside the Pilar, the bait keeps bobbing and Dante gives way to the dolphins, In little time the Pilar boats 15 beauties. Excited as a boy, Hemingway overlooks a promise to quit early and take a late-afternoon nap. Not until almost dusk does the boat put in to harbor. The sun seems to be setting only a few yards off a corner of Havana, four miles distant, and Hemingway savors it as if it were his first sunset-or his last. "Look!" he exclaims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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