Word: napped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After breakfast Wednesday Heather took a nap and set her alarm for two hours of rest. At 8:30 a jackhammer started up outside her window. Heather slept through it. At 9:15 her alarm went off, but she didn't hear it. At 11 the jackhammer started up again, and she jumped out of bed. She never throught she'd be grateful to have a jackhammer wake her. She typed all day, except for the hour she couldn't get on the computer because her sophomore-year roommate had accidently incapacitated two of the machines and was nowhere...
...cross the Square with your friends, and it is ominously devoid of students. Pick up a New York Times at Out-of-Town News, and head over to Mug'n Muffin for breakfast. You take the special and eat ravenously. Back to the room for a nap before your next workout at three in the afternoon. You fall asleep immemediately...
...energy gained by the nap goes into the equally tough afternoon workout, and afterward you feel yourself dozing off as you sit at a welcome dinner at the B-School dining hall. Among the pant-suited ladies and pin-striped gentlement sit sweat-suited heavies and lights, discussing the day's trials, but never mentioning the outcome of seat racing. You fill your sit-up-tightened stomach fairly quickly, forgetting about the two pounds you have to lose before weigh-ins during the season, and head back talking quietly with friends to your empty house and room...
...Lippert was different very different. He was you see an animal. He hibernated for more than 12 hours each day emerging between 1 and 2 p.m. After lunch and a quick nap he would arise again to rough-house until 2 a.m., when he would again hit the sack. On weekends he caught up on his sleep...
American Ambassador Ulric Haynes Jr. and his wife Yolande hastily cleared out spare bedrooms at the embassy for Christopher and his colleagues. The sleeping arrangements hardly mattered. Over the next twelve days, the U.S. negotiators would rarely nap for more than two hours at a stretch...