Word: napped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is absolutely no correlation between long hours of desk drudgery and success in the presidency. It was Lyndon Johnson who instituted the two-days-in-one work routine, claiming prodigious achievements that began at 10 a.m. and ran until 4 p.m., then a two-hour nap, followed by work from 6 p.m. to midnight or so. Secretaries and assorted aides came in two shifts. There is the faint suspicion that if Johnson had throttled back a bit, we would be in less trouble today...
...Ayatullah Khomeini for target practice. At the huge port sprawling along the Shatt al Arab, stacks of mammoth loading containers, stripped of their spoils by Iraqi invaders, are tangled with rusted steel pipes and charred, broken cranes. In makeshift barracks built under pylons, a few off-duty soldiers nap or thumb through magazines to pass the idle time...
...Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Each vignette, Kuralt hoped, would provide "a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that this country is." In sharp contrast to the rest of the news, his stories celebrated qualities of playfulness, compassion, pride, and individual accomplishment. Says he: "I could never nap or read in the camper. I was forever looking out the window, afraid I would miss something...
...other chores as Pauley's standin. "I'm using brain cells I haven't used since college," confesses she. Of more concern to the suburban Los Angeles mother of two is temporary life in a Manhattan hotel. "How do you wake up at 5 a.m., nap from noon until 3 and still have time for the kids...
This coming Saturday will be like any other day for Eugene Ormandy. He will study scores, do some arm exercises, take a nap. After dinner he will walk the few blocks from his elegant Barclay Hotel apartment to Philadelphia's venerable Academy of Music. There he will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in a typical Ormandy program, the First Symphonies of Shostakovich and Mahler. No matter what tributes or ceremonies may be offered, he will try to step down from the podium as usual with a minimum of sentiment and fuss...