Word: napping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refrigerator. He may refuse all food until you cook the same kind of bacon-and-cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit a variety of dead and near dead things at the back door and stalk away for a nap. He may shred the antique silk draperies or decide that the shower stall is a Bauhaus litter pan. Whether the cat is friend or foe, many would agree with the prominent 18th century naturalist, the Count de Buffon. The cat, he wrote, "appears to have feelings only for himself, loves only conditionally and only...
...workaholic, Sadat slept eight hours a night, rarely awoke before 9 a.m. and insisted on a three-hour nap each afternoon. He avoided paperwork, preferring to deal with the broad picture and leave the details to his subordinates. He was so averse to reading official documents that when Cyrus Vance brought him Jimmy Carter's invitation to Camp David, Sadat asked Vance to read it to him aloud...
...afternoon nap in his suite at the Waldorf Towers took care of that. Later the Prince donned evening clothes for a reception at Lincoln Center. Out front, some 4,000 pro-Irish demonstrators taunted the arriving guests, but the Prince slipped in through a back entrance. Thus he never got to see the fluttering placards vilifying the British presence in Northern Ireland. Read one of the more temperate messages: "The sun never sets on the British empire because God doesn't trust the Brits in the dark...
...into the trees or over the hill, and that's it until the drinks and the dice start flying in the clubhouse. You, the spectator, having chosen not to go along in the cart, have at least three hours to read, play Boggle, or go home and take a nap...
Young Nam, a North Korean preschooler, has a problem: he cannot bring himself to shoot at American G.I. target dummies during kindergarten practice. He loses sleep at nap time, brooding over his failure. Nam has every reason to learn to kill the Yankees, his teacher tells him, since they force South Korean children to become homeless street hucksters...