Word: daylong
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...those nine days they had fought for the bridge in the streets and houses of Arnhem-and the Germans had bashed down the houses, one by one. There had been daylong, nightlong battles for a patch of open field, where the British had pitted their parachuted Piats* and even lighter weapons against the Germans' tanks -and had made the tanks turn tail...
...couple of art directors, several photographers and famed esthetic Virtuoso Frank Crowninshield, who was editor of C. N.'s now defunct Vanity Fair and who is now a C. N. "editorial adviser." But Vogue is chiefly run by women, most of whom keep their hats on daylong as they work, thus give the appearance of being ready to take flight at any moment for some chichi affair...
...daylong session Parliament debated an amendment to Regulation 18B that would have allowed anyone held by the Home Secretary to appeal to an "independent tribunal." Defending 18B, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison said: "Unpleasant as this regulation is, obnoxious as it is to British tradition, obnoxious as it is to me (I do not like this regulation; nobody would wish to maintain it just for the fun of the thing), it is vital to the security of the country in time...
...Thibaw, a minor prince, and engineered a coup d'etat which landed him on the throne, his brothers and their supporters in a bloody grave, Fanny, her European maid-of-honor, found herself a favorite. In spite of wholesale massacres not quite drowned out by nightlong music and daylong feasting, Fanny enjoyed those butterfly years. But then she fell in love with Bonvoisin, who had come to the court of Ava to get the concession to the royal ruby mines. He was a Frenchman, but she took him seriously. When he returned with a wife, Fanny stole copies...