Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sokubei Mitsui had a head as round, as bald and as bright as a full moon. "With remarkable moral fortitude," says a chronicle, "he decided to abandon all rank and class and enter a commercial career.'' Sokubei put it more bluntly. "The Mitsuis," he said, "must get money." Some time before 1650 he put away his two samurai swords and-like many a British aristocrat of the same period-became a brewer. Soon Mitsui sake was selling fast throughout Yedo's thirsty red-light district...
...moon has nothing to do with the sex of a chicken that comes out of the egg. Farmers' wives may still think so, but biologists know better. It is a chromosome that does the business, whether the offspring is a fruit fly's or a man's. To predetermine sex, control the chromosome. In the Journal of Heredity, organ of the American Genetic Association, Princeton Biologist E. Newton Harvey...
...most important and surprising thing about Anna and the King of Siam is that they go through 100 minutes of film and manage to maintain an intelligent, if platonic, relationship that must set a new record for Hollywood forbearance. In the place of love under the Siamese moon, 20th-Century-Fox has fashioned an interesting tale of what can happen when a prim but courageous English-woman goes to take up the white man's burden and remains to guide the destiny of a struggling monarch and his nation. All this is decidedly novel for a high-budget film...
After a Russian supper of vodka, cherry brandy, sausages, fried potatoes, more vodka and endless cherry brandy bottoms-up, eight U.S. reporters and their three escorting Russian officers went out walking in Halle. Its streets were lit by a pale moon, traced by the grotesque shadows of bombed buildings. They had not gone a block before the first Germans joined them. By the second block there were 50. By the third every American was walking separately, surrounded by a milling group of Germans, pushing and shoving to say a few words into the correspondents' ears...
...became in war a sunset home for soldiers & sailors. For the G.I., Seymour (smallest of the 16 islands of consequence, 990 miles southwest of the Panama Canal) was The Rock-the never-never land of igneous boulders and shifting red dust, the U.S. Army's beachhead on the moon...