Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large harbors, such as Le Havre or Cherbourg, the tide is relatively unimportant; it is crucial on long, low beaches on which invaders can land only at high tide. Extreme tides coincide with full moon. The western wall of Hitler's Europe will see the full moon on Jan. 10, Feb. 9, March 10, April...
General Weather. Fog, rain, snow, tide, wind and moon will have much to do with the timing. Cold, rainy, foggy January and February are poor invasion months. March is better, though its winds can play havoc with shallow-bottomed craft. Treacherous, unpredictable Channel fogs are no worse in March than in any other month...
...Starting with his flight to the Democratic National Convention in 1932, President Roosevelt has now traveled farther than the distance to the moon (238,860 miles). Next most traveled President: William Howard Taft, 114,000 miles...
Between 4 and 5 a.m. under a ringed half moon, with lightning stabbing the horizon, the American ships entered the narrow channel through Arawe's island screen. The wooded, sloping Jap shore lay silent, waiting...
...already had two direct hits, but Wren's structure is standing up to it amazingly well (if you go back stage in the cathedral you notice with what extraordinary ingenuity and thoroughness-and solidity-the whole thing is put together). ... It was a night of a full moon which half the time was lost in fire clouds, and from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City. ... In a little time great tawny clouds of smoke, rolling in a sumptuous Baroque exuberance, had hidden the river completely and there we were on the dome...