Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glass Jaw. In Vidalia, Ga., Mack Crawford, weaving his way out of the Silver Moon bar, took a poke at a big guy who was holding the door shut, smashed his fist and the door's full-length mirror...
Upon these basic rules (and others closely related), physicists built an imposing structure of knowledge. They predicted the motions of the earth, the moon, the planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...
...June moon, the sparkle of early fireflies, the perfume of flowers and the adrenalin inherent in the human system still stirred up a certain sprightliness in some of the young...
...newspaper cameras) in front of Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's deliquescent, infinitely detailed door entitled That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do. The King guffawed when his guide informed him that a Georgia O'Keeffe he was admiring was titled Pelvis with the Moon. Said Queen Elizabeth tactfully: modern U.S. artists exhibit tremendous vitality...
Bess Myerson, all wrapped up in a long white gown and a musicianly mood, played the piano at a "Pop" Concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, managed to overcome what she calls her "natural barrier": being Mjiss America, 1945. She -gave them Full Moon and Empty Arms. The audience liked it fine, clapped without prejudice...