Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through three daylight summer nights Ribbentrop played on President Risto Ryti's fear of Red Russians while spineless Henrik Ramsay, Finland's Foreign Minister, and indecisive Premier Edwin Linkomies sat by bemused. Then Ryti took the offer to the full Cabinet. He encountered unexpected opposition from Russian-hating Finance Minister Väinö Tanner, strong man of Finnish politics and long the leader of Finland's fight-to-the-finish school. The battle in the Cabinet was so close that Ryti decided against submitting the proposal to the Finnish Diet. Instead he used his wartime power...
...through the night our destroyers offshore and our mortars on the beach threw up star shells which lighted the area like daylight and prevented strong attacks by stealth. By 11 o'clock of the second morning even the most conservative could see that we had come to stay...
...living room. There they talked shop, but this night there was no poker game. After months of building up U.S. strategic bombing power, after maddening delays and unavoidable diversions of equipment to other theaters of war, General Spaatz at last had the force in hand for fullscale, daylight, precision bombing of the enemy; he was waiting for weather reports...
...Once-mighty Truk was attacked in daylight by a lone Navy search plane which bombed two supply ships in the harbor, then compounded the indignity by strafing an airfield...
...pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...