Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carolina Craters. Like the moon, the coastal plain of South Carolina and nearby States is pocked with countless craters. The natives call them "bays," perhaps be cause bay trees grow among the pine forests which often cover the swampy depressions, making them scarcely noticeable-they can be seen clearly only from the air. The craters are usually rimmed with sand, oval in shape, parallel and varying from a few hundred yards to three miles in longest diameter...
Blue-eyed, moon-faced Rudolf Neuberger got his idea while he was working for Atlas Powder Co. He kept hearing his friends groan over the big checks ($500 to $700) they had to send off each term to board their children in prep schools. To Mr. Neuberger, a merchandising expert, this looked like a problem business methods could solve. When he first circularized schools in 1938, he got just one client: Manlius School in New York State. Manlius sent Tuition Plan 20 contracts within ten days. The 100-odd institutions which now use the Plan include such prep schools...
...There was a new moon on Thursday, and although it was close to the end of the month, someone on the ship must have had some money in his pocket to turn over. At any rate our luck held yesterday...
Under a brilliant moon the desert looked like a plain of salt. Across it three British staff cars sped. At a fork in the road a sentry stopped them and signaled the drivers to turn off onto a small side road. The drivers told the sentry who were in the cars-two generals and their staffs. The sentry said he was sorry, but the main road ahead was being prepared for demolition in connection with withdrawal operations...
...Over it, one after another, rolled glorious floats and glittering equipages of white and gold, bearing hundreds of characters from Mother Goose. Wheeling and cavorting came Old King Cole, in canopied splendor suspended between four elephants; ranks of pretty maids with cockleshells; a cow that literally leaped over the moon...