Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pobeda II. To the south 600 mi. another Red Army was driving forward on what was once foreign soil. Its chief was moon-faced General Nikolai Vatutin, captor of Kiev, perhaps Russia's most brilliant field commander...
...first time in many a moon Dr. Joseph Fort Nerwton did not have to get up at 6 o'clock on weekday mornings. After eleven years the Philadelphia Episcopalian rector had given up his syndicated daily newspaper column, Everyday Religion. The flood of readers' letters that had put him to work at dawn's crack was beginning to subside...
...foot of the mule trail the night they brought Captain Waskow down. The moon was nearly full, and you could see far up the trail, and even part way across the valley. Soldiers made shadows as they walked...
...exception is the current idol, Blackwater Cutlet, a small, black 61-pounder from Wimbledon, who gets fan mail. Before races the Cutlet parades with haughty superiority in front of cheering stands who class him with famed Mick the Miller, now immortal and stuffed at Government expense, and Ballynennan Moon, now standing at stud at the record...
Soldiers and airmen like bright, moonlit nights; sailors detest them. The Navy's ideal for an invasion is a dark night, with a light breeze and fair visibility. Next best is a full moon, shrouded with clouds so that just enough light filters through to maneuver ships & men. But the sailors especially hate fog; though it provides cover against the enemy, it hampers naval gunnery, endangers crowded shipping, grounds friendly airmen...