Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunar Probe. In Northfield, N.J., Eileen Bengal, 2½, climbed to the top of a 50-ft. television tower next to her home, when rescued beamed: "I was trying to go to the moon...
...sharply inclined head looks like an immense light bulb with umbrellas for filament, moved Diamond to a softly lyrical, dreamlike sequence in the strings, interrupted by brassy but tentative dissonances and finally fading limply into silence. The Black Prince, which consists principally of a juttingly regal nose and two moon-sized eyes surmounted by a crown, opened with somber, wispy cries of woodwinds and horns, gave way to impetuously flourishing passages in the brasses, died in a melancholy twitter of strings. Less fanciful than the Schuller works, Diamond's "pictures" were ultimately more moving and closer in feeling...
...meetings, the indictments said, the defendants would designate the manufacturer to submit the lowest bid. To quote nearly identical prices, the manufacturers used a "phase of the moon" or "light of the moon" formula...
Under the plan, as the Government outlined it, the companies rotated the prices of their bids to correspond with the moon's phases; one bidding the low prices, others quoting intermediate prices, and one the high price. Thus, each manufacturer would not only know what the others were bidding but would periodically be low bidder and get his agreed share of the market...
Exception: since one lunar day equals 14 terrestrial days, moon Jews will have to observe the Sabbath twice...