Word: napping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Step or Misstep? But one of Khrushchev's most persistent demands is for the creation of an East-West nonaggression pact. The term has been bandied about so much by the U.S. State Department that cables arriving from overseas refer to it simply as "NAP." Publicly, the U.S. has demurred, saying it can do nothing until the subject has been thoroughly discussed with all members of the Western Alliance. Some allies, notably West Germany, fear that NAP could lead to recognizing and "normalizing" a permanently divided Germany. If that were to happen, the test ban treaty, designed...
Since he took over three years ago, hard-driving Dan Parker has given up his sports-car racing hobby in favor of 19-hour working days (with an occa sional five-minute nap). Under him the company has pushed its sales to record levels ($43.3 million last year) and, best of all, has won the race against rising costs: its earnings last year jumped...
...girl of yours ain't any cow"); fancy cussin' ("Damn, damn, double-damn, triple-damn, hell" trills one of the tots); the evil of drink ("My weakness in the eyes of God." says Preacher Wally Cox, "could mean the end of my ministry"); embryology ("Donny took his nap in the fetal position," coos Mimsy Farmer to Maureen O'Hara); scatology ("Here's a dictionary," pants Mimsy to MacArthur. "with all the dirty words underlined"); and courtship ("Honest, Mom," insists MacArthur to O'Hara, "all we were doing was kissing-that's all"). The Spencer...
...uncomplicated himself. "I am a lazy man." admits Abdul Rahman cheerfully, and six years as Malaya's Prime Minister have not altered his funloving ways. The Tunku plays golf every morning (handicap: 24), checks the racing calendar before making advance political engagements, always takes a nap in the afternoon. An avid soccer fan and sports-car buff, he is chronically late for appointments, explains: "Being punctual always wears...
Husband Philip, advertising promotion man for the Lima (Ohio) Citizen, was taking a nap when Barbara felt the bag of waters break. A registered nurse and already mother of three, she calmly phoned for an ambulance before awakening her husband. And at St. Rita's Hospital, where Dr. Vernon Noble found her in excellent health, she got just the sort of treatment she had asked for: only a local anesthetic before delivery. Baby girl No. 1 (4 lbs. 2½ oz.) arrived at 3:27 p.m.; No. 2 (same weight...