Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Machado regime originated, called upon their officers, politely asked some to submit to arrest, others to go to their homes. The officers complied. Sergeant Batista became "chief of staff" of a revolt which swiftly spread to Army outposts, to the Navy, to the rural guards. Under the full moon enlisted men rushed machine guns to significant Havana corners. Civilian Havana slept. No one was known to have been killed as immediate result of the new, non-commissioned officers' revolt...
...wrong date-1832 instead of 1833-printed under the mast- head. It promised to report all the news of the day. In two months it had 2,000 subscribers, within a year 10,000. But not until 1835 did the Sun become famous. And then it was the moon that made it so. A cross-eyed reporter named Richard Adams Locke wrote an ingenious account of how Sir John Herschel. with his new telescope, had found manbats, beasts and weird vegetation on the moon. Locke's hoax shoved the Sim's circulation up to 19,000-largest...
...full of boats, secondhand Buicks, and bouncing college girls. The Sound is the playground of sybarities. Stretching off to Long Island, the shoreline follows the water as a wet garment clings to the firm sweet limbs of a girl and the little line of foam, milky in the moon, decks her with lace...
...plates of both southern and northern stars in his laboratories. William Henry Pickering, who was also a professor of Astronomy here, discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn and proved that it moved in a direction opposite to the others. He travelled widely, made intensive studies of the moon, and established an observatory in Jamaica, British West Indies...
Yellow lights glowed from all four floors of an abandoned cigar factory in Newark, N. J. one night last week. A sickle moon hung in the sky. From the upper windows came susurrous sounds, growing louder and louder, a whisper repeated a hundredfold, until finally the whole neighborhood rang and rang with the cries: "Isn't it wonderful! Peace! Peace! Peace! Ain't it wonderful! OOooh! Peace! Peace...