Word: daylights
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...attempted daylight robbery of a Brinks armored car delivering cash to a Harvard Square bank was foiled yesterday when its guard opened fire, wounding at least two suspects and sending a hail of bullets sailing across a crowded Harvard Square...
...became very run down. This was not a neighborhood to be out in," says one resident who wishes to remain anonymous. "There were heroin sales in broad daylight...
leaned its new weight on the daylight in the park...
...galleries are the best part of the museum, as they ought to be. Botta has done them with impeccable taste and has resisted the temptation to make them depend on artificial light. Because the blocks of the museum mass are stepped back, each floor gets its share of filtered daylight through the roof, and the detailing of these skylights recalls the great prototype of Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, still the most beautiful art-display building erected in postwar America. Botta worked for a time in Kahn's firm in the U.S., and the influence...
...after Chechen forces virtually ran out of ammunition, Russian planes and artillery unleashed a bitter offensive on Grozny, the capital of the separatist republic. The offensive killed 24 civilians, including a American freelance photographer. Scenes of carnage dotted the city after the first daylight air raid in the civil war -- a sign that Russia is now pushing to end what has become a quagmire. But a speedy end to the fighting would come despite fierce Chechen resistance, overwhelming domestic opposition and turmoil in the Russian military command. Several Russian generals have disobeyed orders or sharply criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev...