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...primary store of energy, quickly replenished, and a secondary reserve (second wind) that takes longer to restore. Therefore, he thought, a man should be able to cut his rest periods shorter by relaxing as soon as he has used up his primary energy. Fuller trained himself to take a nap at the first sign of fatigue (Le., when his attention to his work began to wander). These intervals came about every six hours; after a half-hour's nap he was completely refreshed...
Attack on the Beach. While Ike Eisenhower caught his brief nap, war broke loose on the southeastern shores of Sicily. First a blistering wave of air power flicked over the elected zones. Then the destroyers stood in from the sea and began a graceful, weaving parade offshore, their guns shooting tongues of flame at enemy pillboxes and strong points on land. Farther out battleships lobbed their heavy shells in high-arc interdictory fire to smash highways and crossroads deeper in the invasion area...
...analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time for a cup of tea and a cat nap, she is in her dressing room two hours before curtain time. By the time her performance is over, Markova is ready...
Legislative adjournment was set for midnight April 20. Came midnight and an apparently hopeless deadlock over taxes; the clocks were stopped. At 6 a.m. the Governor left for a cat nap at his home in South St. Paul. He was back in his office at 10; the Legislature was still wrangling...
After lunch at home and his usual nap (in pajamas in bed), he had returned to his office about 3, dictated at machine-gun speed the editorials for the next day. By suppertime he was packed and ready to entrain for Washington, to attend an editors' convention, hoping to find new evidences of Democratic Party decay...