Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic at 250 m.p.h., bound from Newfoundland to the Azores. It was 7:25 p.m. All seemed well. At 19,000 feet she was well above the overcast, and the T.W.A. ship was pressurized for the comfort of 21 passengers and the crew. In a couple of hours the moon would be up. Navigator George Hart climbed into the astrodome, a transparent plastic bubble atop the fuselage, and started to shoot the stars with his sextant...
When Detroit's policeman-censor threatened to close Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten unless the actors stopped saying certain words, the words were just quietly dropped. Detroiters would no longer suffer the psychic trauma of: 1) "whore," 2) "bastard," 3) "God damn," 4) "son of a bitch," and 5) "blonde...
...left before sunup the next morning. Though the moon was still shining brightly on the wings of airplanes on the field, and the mountain air was chill, a thousand people were on hand to bid him goodbye. As the Sacred Cow labored off the runways, Harry Truman was worrying a little. Mexico's President Aleman was to visit him next month, and he wondered if his busy fellow Norte-Americanos would take time to match the hospitality he had encountered south of the border...
Despite its lyric title and a preface by T. S. Eliot, there is nothing poetic about this book. It is the harrowing story of Polish citizens nabbed by Soviet secret police in 1939-41 and packed off as prisoners to the dark side of the moon-i.e., forced labor in Soviet Asia...
Page after page of The Dark Side of the Moon is filled with such stories. The author declares that they have all been carefully checked. Now & then she makes an obviously earnest attempt to analyze the Soviet point of view-to understand why a revolutionary government which inherited a "top-heavy, illiterate and decomposing" empire should think that any means of maintaining itself, however brutal, are justified. What happened in Poland, the author concludes, can never be understood in European terms: it was the application of old, half-Asiatic techniques, modified-or intensified-by 20-odd years of Marxist expediency...