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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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WQQW airs 7 5 minutes of news a day-and no editorializing. "We'll never call anybody an s.o.b., we'll just say his mother sat on her haunches and howled at the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Castle | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...ingredients were the same. Patterson's mixture called for health hints and horoscopes, patterns and etiquette, advice for the lovelorn and tips on the horses-and compelling, habit-forming comics. Most of the strips that helped his lusty tabloid grow were named by him (Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Moon Muttins, etc.), often after a thoughtful thumbing of the telephone book. All the artists felt his sensitive, shrewd touch. From Caniff he wanted adventure, suspense, and pretty women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Army sent a radar impulse to the moon, heard it bounce back. This was the farthest stretch of human communication. It said nothing whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Year of the Bullbat | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...Broadway's Iceland Restaurant a new, five-man band made its debut, under moon-faced Drummer Paul Whiteman Jr., 21-year-old son of the moon-faced "King of Jazz." Paul Jr.'s own billing: "The Crown Prince of Rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inside Dopester | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...blue. The little boys from the orphanage "all had lice and an eye-sickness called trachoma, which looked as though their eyelids had been smeared with sausage meat." The winding alleys-Street of the Union, Street of the Clock-were lit at night, white and black, by the polished moon of Castile and by gas jets, weak flames shaped like slices of melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete on the baked plain, where young men crucified bats whose wings tore as easily as old rags. He saw a starved boy in the ragged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spain Remembered | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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