Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a dim crescent moon overhead, shrouded by wisps of clouds. As the soldiers paused in the column, I said to them: "How you doin'?" A big fellow sighed and answered: "This is tough. Can't sleep in nighttime for moving. Can't sleep in daytime for shelling." Around midnight, Horner took his unit out of the culvert and moved farther uphill, preparing to follow Morehouse if he was successful. We had not been long in our new spot, and had just set up our own telephone and radios, when a voice called us and said...
Soldiers who get "up. the chain" to the mainland once in a blue moon are amazed at the trees, the occasional sunny days, the surprising number of women (mostly Civil Service workers Or Army nurses) around town...
Bomber's Moon (20th Century-Fox] counters its lack of bombing with a brimming plotful of moonshine. From the time U.S. Air Forces Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally...
...Cygnus. He found that in their circlings around each other the two stars deviated from the expected path in regular "oscillations" which could be explained only by the gravitational pull of a third body on them (as the Earth's orbit around the Sun is affected by the Moon). By measuring these deviations, he determined that their unseen companion was a body with about 16 times the mass of Jupiter (largest solar planet), that it revolved around one of the stars in a cycle of 4.9 years. Prodded by Strand's finding, astronomers soon located dark companions...
Beneath the Harvest Moon...