Word: nightcap
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Have trouble sleeping? Suffer from the predawn blahs-wakefulness and worries at 4 a.m.? Some people take refuge in sleeping pills, or another nightcap. Not me. I simply thrust the unpleasant thoughts from my mind and demidoze about great men and greater deeds. I think about Homer Jones, 220 lbs. of black thunderbolt streaking at a rate of 9.3 sec. per 100 yds. down a football field. Or about Dick Butkus, that splendid savage of a middle linebacker, actually biting an opponent's nose during a pileup. Or about four massive linemen in purple shirts named Eller, Page, Larsen...
...details the successful efforts of therapists who use pets in diagnosing and treat ing mentally disturbed children. But man has become neurotic, she contends, when owners take pet alligators for drives, buy hairpieces for dogs and lacetrimmed nightgowns for cats, give the puma a pint of beer as a nightcap, and make unnecessary gourmet viands the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. petfood market. Some owners bury their canaries and pooches under massive marble tombstones in special cemeteries. Only last week, an Italian court ruled that a wife was justified in leaving her husband because he regularly shared his bedroom...
...supplied by the house). If guests want seclusion, they may swim through a gentle waterfall to a hidden grotto furnished with soft cushions and background music. Privacy is not complete, however; the grotto can be observed through a trap door on the main hall above. The way to a nightcap is a brisk slide down a brass firehouse pole leading to a bar, where a glass wall gives an underwater view of the pool...
...cash in early on the $400 million men's cosmetics boom (bolstered largely by women shopping for their menfolk at Christmas), Revlon, Inc., last week uncorked its brand-new, 18-item Braggi collection, including cologne "designed for the individualist," and a nightcap facial massage "to relieve a look of worry and fatigue." Mary Lindsay, wife of New York's mayor, confides: "There is nothing that has wheels or that flies that John Jr. hasn't marked in the F.A.O. Schwarz Christmas catalogue...
...sound quite so funny after Juan Marichal ran his season's record to 25-6 by beating the Pirates 5-4 in the first half of a doubleheader in Pittsburgh. And it was anything but humorous when Bob Bolin pitched a one-hitter against the Pirates in the nightcap and shut them out 2-0-thereby embalming Pittsburgh and assuring the Dodgers of a tie for the pennant...