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Word of the Day for Saturday, April 15, 2006 land of Nod, noun: sleep We were fast going off to the land of Nod, when - bang, bang, bang - on the scuttle, and "All hands, reef topsails, ahoy!" started us out of our berths. -- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before The Mast For the jet-lagged insomniac, here are a few suggestions of what to do in Manhattan once the last bar has chucked you out and the land of nod seems further away than the night bus to Camberwell. -- William Hide, "The night shift", The Guardian, February 24, 2001