Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goals by Moon MacMillan, Counce Morgan, and another by Elliott brought the Crimson within hailing distance of the Elis, but, in spite of continued pressure, the Jayvees never did catch up with their opponents...
...night the moon still bowed her pale head above the sea. The languorous trade wind drifted across the water. Storms broke on the dark crest of Diamond Head, stalked down the swift slope to the harbor. But Hawaii was not the same. Alone in the great quiet of the Pacific, 2,100 miles from any continent, Hawaii waited. The tension was strung tight as harp wires...
...Angeles citizens crawled out of beds and goggled at the moon. The city had been blacked out. Suddenly, from dozens of Army anti-aircraft posts, searchlights lanced the dark. Orange bursts blossomed in the sky. The city shook with the concussion of ack-ack guns. For almost two hours, except for one 15-minute interval of scary silence, batteries coughed steadily, spewed 1,430 rounds of ammunition into the night...
Burgy Ayres centers the first line with Bill LaCroix and Moon Macmillan as wings. Tom Cowen and Carlton Burr will play defense and Bill Wright is in the goal, Lyman Bullard, Bill Butcher, and Henry Tilgmman form the second line...
Action in the Marshalls. The yellow Pacific moon saw what the Jap had never thought to see. Spaced along a 200-mile ocean front, from the Marshall to the Gilbert Islands, was an assault force of U.S. cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers, led by a blue-water sailor and naval flyer, Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (see cut, p. 23). They were ready to strike the Jap in his stolen strongholds-2,300 miles from Pearl Harbor, but nearest of all his bastions to Hawaii...