Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under a moon and all through the hot night they tramped. They passed Filipino natives, who stared. Carabao carts were commandeered and the weakest were loaded aboard. One man died of shock, another died when his faltering heart gave out. The rest of them, still bewildered by the suddenness of their delivery, trudged...
Richard T. ("Dick") Frankensteen pudgy vice president of the C.I.O.'s potent United Automobile Workers, all-out New Deal orator, announced that he had $65,000 backing for a light opera called Gypsy Moon (book and lyrics by Dick Frankensteen). Said he: "The operetta has no connection with the U.A.W.-C.I.O. Ever since I was in college, I've had a desire to produce a stage show...
...Winthrop's plan (TiME, Jan. 8), like much good satire, is less frivolous than prophetic. I predict that by 2000 A.D. the Germans, having been encouraged to migrate, will be firmly entrenched on the moon, the U.S. General Staff having rejected the planet as "militarily unsuitable" and the British having discounted it as unnavigable...
Obviously the main problem arises from the fact that four-tenths of the moon's surface (Winthrop's so-called "backside") is inaccessible to bombardment from the earth. To blast these regions I have designed a cannon combining the better features of a trench mortar and a slow curve. Consisting of a curved barrel mounted on a base equipped with weather bureau, barracks, soda fountain and bond booth, its aim and fire power is controlled by the formula given on the enclosed drawing...
...immediately submitted to the Harvard "Mechanical Brain," this problem might conceivably be solved by the time I have finished drawing up the blueprints and Gouverneur Winthrop's men reach the moon...