Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here they were asking for a piece of the moon. Last year the U.S. produced 120,000 tons of tool steel; 5,000 tons a month would be half of U.S. production at a time when the U.S. is also tooling...
...most radical man in Parliament is not Laborite Emanuel Shinwell, the chief voice of those few Labor Party members who have refused to march along with the Churchill Conservative-Labor coalition Government. Nor is it Parliament's only Communist, moon-faced Willie Gallacher, who is delighted to find Winston Churchill marching along with Joseph Stalin...
...symptoms of a crisis between the embittered disillusionment of the century and the last thwarted survivors of the age of progress. Two years' ago I was sufficiently interested to write a column on the "Tchaikowski Question." Today, with the world tottering about my head, the strains of "Moon-Love" or "Concerto for Two" crupting from every juke-box in the country, and a superior order of intellectuals debating the problem in higher epistolary fashion, I can only reiterate the main conclusions I came to then: that in my opinion the "Romco and Juliet" fantasy and the last three symphonies...
...ranted against Herr Stalin with the most superb illogic ("nothing but an instrument in the hand of almighty Jewry ... a second Genghis Khan"). The more he ranted the more pathologically insecure did Adolf Hitler sound. He puffed with outraged innocence ("South America is as far away as the moon"). He blew with outraged pride ("I will not stand for the British blockade saying that this [3,600,000 Russian prisoners] is not verified. When German military authority has counted something, it is correct"). When Adolf Hitler puffs and blows, he is feeling put upon...
Some of the prettiest soccer seen around Harvard in many a moon featured the Varsity's walloping of Brown by a score of 5-0 Saturday noon on Soldiers Field...