Word: naps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name is Nip Brigham. My twin brother is Nap Brigham. We both get mail at Post Office Box 1, Dyersburg, Tenn. Nip and Nap both subscribe to TIME-Nip for years, Nap just started. You have now dropped Nip's subscription. You must have extended Nip's with Nap's. Nip's has a year and a half to run, Nap's one year. Please send two copies each week-one to Nip and one to Nap. Nap gets to the box before I do." A little investigation cleared up the mistake. It seems that...
Reported our subscription sleuth: "Nip was only too right. We had not trusted our own eyes. We simply added Nap's new subscription to Nip's old one on the supposition that they were one and the same Brigham. Adjustment has been made, and Nip has been advised." By now two copies of TIME are going to Box 1 in Dyersburg every week-one for Nip and one for Nap...
Assembly on the Spot. All day and all night the grappling went on. Mendès took a nap on the cot in his office, then, tugging at his rumpled suit, returned to the floor to fight his way out of an old beartrap of French politics-the "war of resolutions." By attaching crippling resolutions to a government motion, the Assembly often evades a decision or makes futile a government proposition. Mendès found himself fighting more than a dozen of them. As a favor to the Europeans, he agreed to one that expressed a "desire to continue with...
...orders with their own ears, and then passing from the scene like ghosts. The toiling secretary, scribbling like mad in a desperate shorthand, never dared to interrupt the one-man show, which ended only when the Emperor abruptly shot from the room, took an hour's nap. and ultimately returned with "an overfilled goose-quill" to inscribe a blotty "N" at the base of each transcribed letter...
...jail at Kanab, the 49-year-old Holland retains his amiability. His story: after one unsuccessful attempt to reach the area, they took another route. When the car came to a gorge Wilson got out alone to continue the journey on foot. Holland went back to town, took a nap in his trailer, bought a bottle of whiskey and spent a gay evening with some prospector friends...