Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear days the U.S. troops, haggard and green with fatigue, got help from the fighter-bombers. On such days they could see the towers and chimneys of Cologne, the great city on the Rhine. It looked as far away as the moon...
Glimpses of the Moon. Last week Britain's famed jack-of-all-sciences, J. B. S. Haldane, philosophically predicted a big postwar future for V2, which he thought could rise to 200 miles if fired vertically. Mused Haldane: "it could take photographs . . . [of] the sun and perhaps other heavenly bodies. . . . For the cost of a day of war, it should be practicable to send a series of rockets round the moon and photograph its far side...
Ambush. The Japs' southernmost fleet suffered least from U.S. aerial pounding during its approach, and reached the scene of battle first. The first-quarter moon had set early, and the morning darkness was deep in Surigao Strait. At the southern end, squadrons of PT boats lay in ambush. As the Huso and Yamasiro entered the narrows with their screen, the PTs attacked. The tiny, bucking craft had made their reputation for dash and expendability in the Philippines, and they lived up to it. They scored some hits, lost several of their number...
...hunter, was hailed by the Nazis as the "first American woman" captured on the western front when she fell into enemy hands in Wallendorf, where she was working with a service organization. Daughter of the late millionaire rug maker John Sanford, in 1929 she explored the Mountains of the Moon, Ethiopia, with Sidney and Morris Legendre, Princeton athletes (1925) and sportsmen. She brought back wild Yaha hunting dogs, then married Sidney Legendre, now a Navy lieutenant commander, who last week was in Washington on leave from Pacific duty...
...published author by the time he was 20-though much of his town-gossip writing was pale as the moon in the morning-Irving was popular, attractive, the bearer of a charmed life from the time he suddenly got the idea for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (he was crossing a bridge in Westchester) to the time he was captured by Mediterranean pirates. With his successful older brothers making life easy for him, Irving took his lawyer's career lightly. He had only one client, and neglected him. But he knew the old Dutch legends of the Hudson, cheerfully...