Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all this dark-of-the-moon melodrama behind them, the pair traveled confidently to Bangor, Boston and New York. They had a set of admirably forged draft cards, $60,000 in U.S. currency, and a fistful of diamonds. In Manhattan they browsed in radio shops, openly buying parts for a radio transmitter. Also they sampled the city's night life-in less than four weeks they managed to spend $3,425 of the Third Reich's funds...
Subject: the Winthrop plan of interglobal strategy in World War III. According to this theory only a planet with a backside has a military future. The earth, alas, has no backside. It is immediately imperative for the U.S. to take the lead in rocket exploration of the moon and to establish bases there. The nation that controls the moon controls the earth...
...short: it is a well-known fact that the moon revolves in such a way that it always turns the same face to the earth. The other side of it will always be inaccessible to rocket fire from the earth. Thus it forms an ideal site for supplies, factories, munitions works, etc. Well placed emplacements on this side of the moon, on the other hand, could command every part of the earth as if it were a chicken turning on a spit, simply waiting for New York or Moscow to come within range.... A sketch is enclosed...
...Duets. "C. D. Gibson" sold his first drawing to Life (for $4) when he was 19. It showed a small dog looking at a big moon, over the caption "The Moon and I." If he had not been a fast, hard worker, he could not have satisfied the quick public demand for his pretty women and his quietly satirical drawings of society life. By the time he was 25, he was the most sought-after black-&-white artist in the U.S. His fattest contract came in 1893, when Collier's agreed to pay $100,000 for 100 drawings...
Vespucci anchored in a Brazilian harbor on Aug. 17, 1499, after a fight with natives that left his men "grievously wounded and weary." He remained in harbor until Sept. 5, 1499. There, by a brilliant calculation based on the distance between the moon and Mars ("lunar distance"), he evolved a way of learning where he was and how far he had traveled...