Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon was up, dawn was a good hour away, the surf was deep. A Navy-borne British Commando eased up to the coast of northern France. From the dunes between Boulogne and Le Touquet, where vacationing Britons used to loll, Nazi searchlights fingered the Channel. But none found the Commando's barges until the last man in shorts, woolen cap and blackened face had waded ashore...
Ananada Mahidol, King of Siam, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of Tides, and possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, was quietly at school in Lausanne, Switzerland. There he has been learning English. Next September, when he comes of kingly age (17), he will formally ascend Thailand's Golden Lotus Throne...
Twenty-four Hours. One day when the sun had gone down and there was little light from the waning moon, the Jap set out in assault boats from Bataan. Corregidor, still on its feet, slashed at the landing parties with rifle and machine-gun fire, but the artillery pieces that should have been there to stop them were silent. In the great rents made in the barbed wire by the Jap's guns he beached his troops...
...Moon Mist (Duke Ellington; Victor). Distinctive Ellington treatment of an indigo tune by the bandleader's son, Mercer Ellington, introduced by rhapsodic fiddling from Trumpeter Ray Nance...
...ades of Roseland, Lindy's, the Paramount, the Astor; dark were the skyhigh signs. Out went the New York Times's electric bulletins -as though time itself had quit on Broadway. The only light a plane could see came from a pale "bomber's" moon, touching the skyscraper towers and silvering the rivers. Crowds in Times Square watched the phenomenon, dumbstruck. Broadway's lights probably will not glitter brightly again until the war is over. "Dim-outs" will be the nightly rule, so that no sky-glow can limn ships at sea, betraying them...