Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops, their faces and even their teeth blackened by burnt cork...
...MOON IS DOWN-John Steinbeck-Viking...
...five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished." With these brisk, matter-of-fact words John Steinbeck begins his brisk, matter-of-fact account of the conquest of a nameless country, resembling Norway, by an invading force, resembling the Nazis. The Moon Is Down is Steinbeck's first important work of fiction since The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and the most resolute and dramatic piece of propaganda that has come out of World...
Implacable. Lieut. Tonder's meeting with this girl is the high point of The Moon Is Down. For in this human episode there emerges for the first time in the literature of the democracies a pure jet of that implacability which has been the driving force of the Nazi revolution and without which the counterrevolution cannot succeed against...