Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's week was, in many ways, as comfortably old-fashioned as his heating arrangements. Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people-from turbaned, bearded Most Rev. Dr. Mar Ivanios, Catholic Archbishop of Trivandrum, Travancore, India, to Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who used to be Harry Truman's partner...
...wrestlers carry into the West fracas the most imposing early season record in many a moon, with decisive victories over M.I.T., Wesleyan and Columbia...
...were to become a Commissar of Poetry," declared hard-working Anthologist Louis Untermeyer before the Poetry Society of America in Manhattan, "I would remove from every school poetry book the words magic, beauty, wonder, glamour, purple, ecstasy, moon, and spring...
...Panzerfaust (a German-type bazooka) and Rumanian mines. Three of Dimitri's friends from Lamia tried to run away from the guerrilla band. "They were caught," said Dimitri, "and tied with ropes and the oldtimers came and kicked them to death before us in the light of the moon...
...Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers as a philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature has a great mystic purpose. But man founders. . . . Man, the one discordant note in the Symphony of Life . . . playing E-minor when the score calls for C-major." As an effort to prove that Tito...