Word: horizonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the sun had dropped below the horizon and a white ground mist had crawled slowly up the valley floor along the black line of the Lunghai railroad, Li telephoned an order to his artillery commanders. Within a few minutes two spots in the valley blazed with the flash of cannon fire; tracers from the 37-mm. guns on Li's tanks cut red streaks through the blackness as they arched in a slow trajectory like monstrous lighted clay pigeons. Less frequently the huge muzzle flash of 105-mm. guns ballooned from the plain, hung for an instant, then...
...trailed behind the general's as we ground in low gear across the rough ground toward a village headquarters less than three miles from the front. Jeep lights flicked on and off as the drivers tried to avoid the deeper holes. An elliptical orange moon popped over the horizon. As we neared the village we passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder rolled...
...brightest comet of 1948 was visible this week, but only early birds and milkmen got a good look at it: the comet could be seen only for a short time before dawn. In the north temperate zone its rising tail appeared above the southeastern horizon just ahead of the sun. The best view was from a hilltop away from bright city lights...
Charles A. Federer of the Observatory respected that scientists in Los Angeles and Flagstaff, Arizona, saw the new comet yesterday but that Boston is too far north for the comet to come over the horizon while it is still dark enough...
...some intelligent remarks I wanted to make about Radcliffe girls as students, and the study of languages. Just what they were you will find out one of these days when there isn't any readable copy lying about . . . don't forget about Cornell. Army is on the horizon, but it's still a long way to Ithaca...