Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room floor or out on the grass in the backyard. Late arrivals drove straight to Callaway Park, where the speech was to be delivered, to be on hand for good seats in the morning, to sleep safely under blankets, under the maples, the beeches, the oaks, the bright Indiana moon...
...orange half-moon hung low over the Hudson highlands and the broad, dark Hudson River. A few villagers who had been fishing for white perch pulled up their lines, strolled across the New York Central tracks to the little concrete platform of the Hyde Park railroad station. When the President's special train slid around the bend from Poughkeepsie, a cluster of 50 townfolk in light dresses, in shirt sleeves and slacks toed the edge of the platform. They left the graveled parking space free for Franklin Roosevelt. "We know where we're supposed to stand," chirped...
Closely as they scanned the sky toward Germany, the British scanned even more closely the water and the harbors across it from which Adolf Hitler's invasion attempt might come. The July moon waxed full. The tides were just right (flood after midnight). By press and radio Germany threatened invasion ever more loudly and instantly. Still it did not come. Some guessers said that, after disagreement in his High Command, Hitler was waiting for the weekend of Aug. 4, anniversary of Britain's 1914 declaration of war, when the moon would be dark. Only troop move he made...
...Manhattan, balding, moon-faced Exile Carl Joachim Hambro, for 15 years president of the Storting (Norwegian parliament), explained Norway's vulnerability to the Nazi attack: "Perhaps we loved butter better than guns...
...eclipse of the moon...