Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observing weather, true to the average of open nights, was half hazy with clouds and half clear, but as the graduate student of astronomy who was exhibiting the moon and the planet Jupiter through the big 15-inch 'scope, reminded his audience, it is unfair to blame 'the observatory staff for the pranks of the elements. However, no rain checks were given...
...observers next crowded up into the wooden dome which houses the 96-year-old refracting telescope, which, in its day, was the largest in the world. Climbing up into a plush-covered seat beside the graduate observerer, the visitors at first caught a glimpse of the craters of the moon, but only a small portion of the total surface could be seen at a time...
Daddy's Job. To collect, store and distribute millions of tons of grain was a job for a big man. Chiang turned it over to the big man who does most of his big jobs: his moon-faced brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, Finance Minister and Vice Premier. In June Dr. Kung, who dearly loves to address conferences, herded together an earnest conclave of 250 local officials from all over China, fed his sweltering delegates lemon pop, tea, cake, pastry, explained the law, sent them home. All summer from dawn to midnight, in Chungking's offices...
From Glyndebourne, too, came the New Opera's conductor of last week-hulking, moon-faced German Fritz Busch. This week the New Opera revives Verdi's Macbeth, seldom heard in the U.S. since 1850. Other revivals: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, whose lush melodies and story of a gambler's fate have pleased European but not U.S. audiences, and La Vie Parisienne -Offenbach's satire on the gaslit vulgarities of France's Second Empire...
...Luftwaffe picked out Britain's east coast invasion ports, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull, Dover, Ramsgate. Under a cynical harvest moon bombers dropped high explosives and incendiaries, raked streets with cannon fire. For good measure they repeated the performance two nights later...