Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the open sky in the bright glare of the moon the thin column of soldiers advancing with the slow step of a funeral procession appeared pitifully small. As they went with dead, plodding steps by me and up and out of sight over the slope, I thought that in the final analysis it is not planes, nor tanks, nor guns that bring victory in battle, but the infantry that go forward and drive the enemy from their positions and open a way for the rest of the army to follow over their bodies...
...composer to topnotch polyphonic religious music, including several motets, a setting for the pontifical processional "Ecce Sacordes Magnus," and a man in honor of St, Jude. No less solid is his reputation as a composer of hit parade ballads, including "Lonesome," which was written for Helen Morgan, "The Moon in Here," and a stirring war song scheduled to roll off the press in a few days, "Hands Off America." Following his return from the World War, Chaplain Landing completer his theological training at the Catholic University in Washington and at St. Meinrad's Seminary of the Benedictine order in Indiana...
...professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor . . . their driving energy . . . their sincere desire to please 'Koussy' and the audience." The music itself is angular, rough, forceful, enthusiastic. Particular attention and praise also should be called to the plaintive woodwin solos at the close of "Look Down, Fair Moon," and the God knows-how-many voice orchestral fugue opening the "Song of the Banner...
Berlin, Munich, Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Essen-everywhere the wings of the R.A.F. shadowed the moon and destruction followed for the Herrenvolk below...
...bomber's moon on four successive nights guided aircraft of General Douglas MacArthur's command over the jungle-clothed mountains of New Guinea to Rabaul. On one raid a Jap cruiser was hit. On another a warship was driven aground. Two other warships and numerous cargo vessels also felt the sting of night raiders striking at the best deep-water harbor in the New Guinea-New Britain area...