Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...
Sophomore southpaw Charlie Hoar, slated to get the nod from Coach Collard, is bound to have a nightmare in broad daylight when he faces Harvard's high-powered murderer's row, which boasts five .300 hitters...
...near, but not yet excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...
...night before the fall the censors told foreign correspondents that they would not be operating in Barcelona the next day. Dr. Negrin left in the middle of the night. What Loyalist battalions remained guarding the city vanished before daylight. It was all over...
...Hopeh and Shantung Provinces, are loosely organized into a "People's Self-Defense Army." Crude village arsenals make their grenades, bullets and broadswords, but much of their ammunition is unwillingly furnished by the Japanese. Clad in green cotton uniforms enabling them to melt into the countryside after a daylight raid, the guerrillas are taught to wreck Japanese troop and supply trains, ambush food convoys and attack isolated Japanese garrisons...