Word: daylights
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...lunching with two friends from the New York Times, and in passing, one of them praised a recent magazine piece by a man who wished "homosexuality off the face of the earth." Miller was seized by a sudden burst of exasperation: "And then for the first time, in broad daylight, in a French restaurant on West 46th Street, I found myself saying: 'Look, goddam it, I'm homosexual, and most of my best friends are Jewish homosexuals, and some of my best friends are black homosexuals, and I am sick and tired of reading and hearing such goddam...
...half century ago, Eiseley watched and heard his father dying of cancer, and ever since then he has suffered from insomnia. That was how he came to live in "the night country," a place of fear and uncertainty, where the rules of daylight no longer apply, and the animal with the yellow eyes is no longer tame. Once you have come to know the night country, you remember it even when the sun is shining...
...Africans took over 82 rooms, flowers in the national colors of each state were sent to the presidential suites, and breakfasts were served at 3:30 a.m. for Ahidjo and other Moslems in the group because they were observing the holy month of Ramadan, which requires fasting during daylight. Mrs. Meir, for the first time in Israel's history, ordered the entire Cabinet to abandon its sports-shirt informality and don black ties for a dinner in the visitors' honor...
...blooded-shoot-out in which Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd and a group of hoolums attempted to free one of their cohorts who was being taken to prison. Although the plan failed. FBI Special Agents and a local police chief died in the gun battle, which took place in broad daylight in front of the Kansas City Railroad depot...
Marinaro is given the ball about four yards behing the line of scrimmage, so that he has the option to abandon the designated hole and look for daylight elsewhere in the line...