Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What with the moon and parachute flares (not to mention incendiary bombs and London-sized targets), blackouts are no good, anyhow. So let's substitute light-outs. When bombers come, turn on all lights. Install more lights to turn on. Make earth and sky one luminous hell for enemy pilots. Blind them with clustered searchlights. Fool them with lights around empty fields. Simply by lighting up everything, obscure all worthwhile targets...
There, big as life, shining in the full June moon, lay the sleek, clean form of a German pocket battleship...
...that the war had become a war between two worlds. In LIFE last week appeared an interview with Hitler by onetime Ambassador to Belgium John Cudahy, in which, according to Cudahy, "he said the idea of a Western Hemisphere invasion was about as fantastic as an invasion of the moon. ... He said that he had never heard anybody in Germany say that the Mississippi River was a German frontier."* But this week Correspondent Cudahy returned to the U.S. with a sterner impression to give. Hitler, said Cudahy, "gave no impression that he wanted peace. . . . His attitude was a very unfriendly...
Chungking is a rocky, corrugated tongue of land sticking out at the junction of the swift-flowing Kialing and Yangtze rivers. One evening last week, as the moon painted the rivers silver to guide the invading Japanese planes once more to their mark, the tongue squirmed and writhed in pain as never before...
...corona is bright, but the sun itself outdazzles it except when blacked out by the moon (or by synthetic eclipses created by the device called a coronagraph). Since each of the 92 standard elements, when hot, glows with distinctive spectrum colors, astronomers can analyze the corona's chemical content with spectroscopes during eclipses. They have found in it about two dozen unidentifiable spectrum bands...