Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Triphammers' Trips. After the Lübeck and Rostock raids the four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
...cinema rights to The Moon Is Down (concerning an invaded village), 20th Century-Fox paid Author John Steinbeck the biggest outright story-price on record...
...Back to Belcourt went a pointed rumor: the U.S. was coming after any young bucks not in uniform. Last week 15 of them showed up at Minot, were sent on to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The Indian maids of Belcourt were left lonely under the Turtle Mountain moon-for the duration...
...eaten for three days." As I went out the British Friends' ambulance units were bringing in more Chinese wounded in American jeeps; all of them would be handled by Seagrave, who was the only surgeon. The house was full of wounded. When he buried two dead, under the moon, he said: "Now that the shooting has started, we have got to get down to work. Nobody's doing enough...
...Moon Is Down (by John Steinbeck; produced by Oscar Serlin). Primarily intended for the stage, The Moon Is Down was first rigged up as a novel (TIME, March 9), and inside five weeks sold almost half a million copies. Theoretically the tailor-made play should beat the makeshift novel all hollow; actually it can't come near it. Steinbeck's fable of how some unnamed but obviously Nazi invaders take over an unlocalized but obviously Norwegian mining town, meet with icy resistance and are themselves worn down, never really comes to life in the theater...