Word: naps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to kill. Sugar Ray was up at 7, went to Mass in a nearby church at 8, had finished breakfast by 10:30. At 11:30 he shuffled across the Avenue de Keyser from the Century Hotel for the formality of weighing in. After that came a long nap back in the hotel. Not until 3:30 did the real business of the day begin...
...Order. Just before lunch Tuesday, Harry Truman again saw Marshall, decided with him that the time had come to act. He went to Blair House for lunch, took his usual nap, returned to the White House at 3 o'clock. He summoned Marshall, Bradley, Acheson and Averell Harriman to a final meeting, then told his staff to draw up MacArthur's firing orders -just as the afternoon papers bloomed with headlines from Tokyo: MACARTHUR DEMANDS FREER HAND...
...that it will spread over the ground while burning, instead of going up in an instantaneous whoosh, as ordinary gasoline would. The first satisfactory thickener found during experiments in World War II was a mixture of aluminum naphthenate and certain fatty compounds from coconuts, hence the name "napalm" (nap from naphthenate, and palm referring to the coconuts). In Korea, napalm is carried under the wings of Air Force, Navy and Marine tactical planes, in containers of 100 or 150 gallons, and is set off (when the containers hit the ground) by white phosphorus igniters. A napalm bomb can cover...
...greeted an oldtime Washington friend, Party-Giver Perle Mesta, now U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "What are you doing out here in this cold, Perlie?" At his ninth NATO capital in 13 days, Ike was pale and tired; he put off an appointment with Premier Pierre Dupong, took a nap after lunch, instead. Constellation crew members reported that the general constantly pored over documents during flights. "He doesn't even take time out to look out the window unless we point something out to him," an officer said. That evening, Mrs. Mesta invited Ike and Luxembourg dignitaries...
...White House newsmen who normally dog the President's footsteps decided they could take a breather one afternoon last week. Knowing that Harry Truman was taking a nap and that his next scheduled move was a trip to Arlington National Cemetery, most of them went to lunch off the White House beat. Only a handful were in the White House pressroom when the biggest spot news story of the week broke at Blair-Lee House (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...