Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guadalcanal, U.S. Marines fought off Zeros and bombers that were attacking there. With the loss of only three planes, Marine pilots destroyed eleven Zero fighters, five two-motored Mitsubishis, five carrier bombers. By the time the battle ended and the Japs had withdrawn in the light of a bright moon, U.S. pilots of all the services had shot down a total of 96 enemy planes. U.S. losses: eight pilots missing...
...lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director for Oscar Hammerstein, now (at 69) a minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing it, but Jacksonville children continued to carol it, passed it on to other...
...professors. Score: 140-to-275, in favor of the Kids. Smarting from this rout, the professors boned up for a year, recently challenged the Kids again. Score: professors, 110; Kids, 105. The Quiz Kids' alibi: they had stayed up the night before to watch the eclipse of the moon...
...light of the waning moon Rommel made his last-minute preparations. As dawn cracked over the desert, he attacked. It looked at last like the offensive for which the British had waited...
...Lomas the sea sucked back 600 feet from shore, then heaved a tidal wave that smashed warehouses and seethed into the town. The people of Lomas scuttled into nearby hills. There, after nightfall, they pointed to a fresh terror: a great shadow slowly passed over the face of the moon...