Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moon & the Rain. If this made the future look brighter for the Allied occupiers, the present was dark enough for the defeated. U.S. bombing, of all types, lamented Radio Tokyo, had destroyed 44 cities, killed 260,000, injured 412,000, left 9,200,000 homeless. Tokyo alone had lost 63% of its population (dead and evacuated), 70% of its homes. When Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger led his Eighth Army in to occupy the Tokyo area, he would find it at least as desolate as any city in Europe...
Over the little village of Solebury, shining down on eastern Pennsylvania's rolling fields and wooded hills, the moon was clear in a still, star-frosted sky. In nearby Washington's Crossing and New Hope on the Delaware River the sirens and automobile horns had stopped their clamor. The old fire engine which had clanged happily around the green-banked dirt roads was back in its barn...
When the summer moon is full and the tide is high, the grunion run in Southern California. The grunion (rhymes with bunion) are small (6-in.), smelt-like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...
Last week the grunion were running in full flow, and Southern Californians, as usual, were there to greet and catch them. Tide and moon tables were posted on the desk of many a businessman. On proper nights, autos jammed the highway from Malibu to Santa Monica; beach fires crackled from Long Beach to San Diego. As usual, some of the grunion hunters cuddled in the shadows, glad to forget the original purpose of their parties. But those who kept their minds on grunion splashed madly through the surf, snagging the slippery fish with their bare hands (nets are illegal). Since...
...Stubby, moon-faced Stephen Jerome Hannagan made his start by shouting the praises of Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming auto racers. His big chance came, 20 years ago, when Promoter Carl Graham Fisher put him in charge of Miami Beach's publicity. Hannagan set up a news bureau, sent northward a steady flow of good copy - about 25% society notes on what the home folks were doing down South, the other 75% pictures of pretty girls in bathing suits. Miami Beach prospered, and Steve Hannagan got a lot of the credit...