Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people dislike Richard Nixon?' Honestly we don't know. We puzzle about it. Maybe it is because he flashes his smile off and on so like an electric light. (Kefauver rarely smiles or laughs or anything; occasionally there is a wide, quarter-moon grin...
...tall above his clump of Soviet assistants, moved about with a big smile and gladhand. Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak popped cherubically into place. The U.S.'s John Foster Dulles, arriving at the last moment, moved coldly past Shepilov to shake the hand of France's moon-faced Christian Pineau. For the instigators of the session, Great Britain and France, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd leaned forward and put the issue: "We are determined to uphold our rights, rights properly secured and guaranteed, to free transit through this international waterway." It was an almost typical beginning...
...brothers Goncourt described Dumas once: "a kind of a giant with the hair of a Negro, the salt beginning to mix with the pepper, and with little blue eyes buried in his flesh like those of a hippopotamus, clear and mischievous; and an enormous moon face, exactly the way the cartoonists loved to draw him . . . You at once the showman of freaks and prodigies, the vendor of wonders; the traveling salesman for the Arabian nights." At all hours of the day and night, Dumas shoveled food into himself as into a coke furnace. Groaning from violent stomach cramps and unable...
...said Carstens-Johannsen. About an hour later Captain H. G. Nordenson went below, leaving him in command to maintain a course of 87°. The speed was 18 or 19 knots, and the night, he testified, was clear, with good visibility and a full view of the moon. As Stockholm sliced eastward from New York Harbor toward Nantucket lightship, he was bothered only by ocean currents that pulled the ship two or three miles northward off course, and by the need to keep a weather eye on the duty helmsman, who was sometimes "more interested in sur rounding things than...
...quits her first post because a married doctor keeps breathing amorously on her neck. At her next post, Dibela, in the Belgian Congo, the resident doctor dies the night she arrives, leaving her the only white within miles. In short order she climbs the sacred Mountains of the Moon and invites a couple of thahus (curses) from the local medicine men. So there she is, alone with surly Bantus not many generations removed from cannibalism. But that is just the way Rachel likes it, for she is a born coper...