Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until a Congressional committee, poking around a swamp)' underbrush and prodding under stones, pried him into view in 1943, John Porter Monroe was just another Washington fixer. In the unkind daylight, Fixer Monroe swelled into quite a big bug. His "big red house on R Street" became notorious. That was where Monroe entertained industrialists who wanted war contracts and governmental bigwigs who had influence in handing them out. After much headline hullabaloo, the committee finally decided that slick Mr, Monroe was a nonpoisonous...
...Mexican Government provided Trotsky with a 24-hour military guard. He had a private guard of revolver-toting secretaries (one of whom, an American, was kidnaped and murdered during the first attempt against Trotsky). But the assassin, allegedly an agent of the NKVD (Russian Secret Police), arrived in broad daylight, introduced to Trotsky's circle in the guise of a friend. One day as Trotsky sat reading a paper, this friend, Frank Jackson,*produced a small pickax (such as mountain climbers use), smashed Trotsky's skull and crunched into what a moment before had been...
...added a new form of mortification to the lashes, thorns and vigils with which they traditionally atone for sin. The new humiliation: a lawsuit, the first in Penitente history. It threatened to bring some of the closest Penitente secrets out of the windowless adobe moradas ("purple houses") into the daylight of a civil court in Old Las Vegas...
Best and most revealing picture was The Artist Looks at Nature (lent by Chicago's Art Institute-see cut), which showed Sheeler in the daylight drawing a nighttime interior. The surrounding spring landscape was as neat and clean as a Quaker meetinghouse...
...infantry captain in World War I, Secretary Patterson won the Distinguished Service Cross for a courageous daylight patrol...