Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ahead, across 1,500 yards of moon-bright plain, lay the hill called Takrouna...
...dark of the moon one night, just after midnight, a force of Gurkhas moved stealthily forward toward Djebel Fatnassa. Gurkhas are dark little men from Nepal who take to slopes like goats...
Opening in Stockholm last month, John Steinbeck's anti-Nazi, inferentially Norwegian The Moon Is Down proved such a smash that it speedily moved to a bigger theater. Swedish critics, speaking of evergrowing Norwegian resistance, praised Steinbeck for prophetic insight, remarked that The Moon Is Down is truer today than when it was written...
...landscapes of a single lone ombú tree, with zinc-white rinsings of the moon, his gaucho dances at dusk in orange groves or tiled patios, his dames of the epoch of Rosas gossiping in red dresses on crimson sofas in scarlet damask rooms, his nocturnes of the old market or the environs of Malvin, his two wonderful paintings of the murder of Facundo Quiroga on the diligence, and above all the strange series of Negro customs, candombe dancers, wakes, the mongrels chasing the funerals on foot, the parades and festivals are an inexhaustible pageant of a rich past...
Anyone of a number of Boston pitchers might be on the mound tomorrow, but it's a safe bet that whoever, does the hurling will show the Crimson nine more stuff than they will see in many a moon...