Word: daylighting
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...This Grand Old U.S.A." Daylight came in the windows of the four Pullmans. The train joggled on. The boys poured each other some eye-openers and the stories began again and grew more wonderful...
...first daylight, young Mayor Theophilou was seized at home, dragged and kicked through the streets to Truman Square, backed up against a white marble monument. Said a rebel capitanos: "You've had a lot of experience lately making speeches to your American friends. Why not make one for us?" Theophilou straightened and started to answer: "I am mayor of this town and-" A spatter of bullets from rebel Tommy guns cut him off. For three days his body stayed there, propped against the bloodstained marble. Thus the lesson began...
Dust Bowl. One November day in 1933 the sun turned pink, then red, then grey. Dust swirled up from the drought-ridden plains, rolled over the town in a black, gritty cloud. That winter and spring there were 90 such daylight blackouts. Dust stood an inch and a half deep on the window sills. Grasshoppers and locusts moved in as cattlemen and farmers moved...
...night, to avoid the repetition of a memorable scene, just four years ago, when Mindszenty was being arrested by Hungarian fascists. At that time he refused to be driven off in a police car. He donned his robes, and, followed by 20 priests, walked to prison in broad daylight, blessing the people who lined the streets kneeling in prayer...
...order to enjoy what little afternoon daylight is left in Cambridge afternoon daylight is left in Cambridge after 3 p.m., Valpey reversed the usual order of practice on Monday and ran the team through plays before they viewed the Princeton films. What happened at the movies is a dark secret but Art Valpey had a few remarks to make about the Tiger tragedy at the coaches luncheon yesterday...