Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, moon-faced Al Jarvis, 44, self-styled dean of the country's 4,000 disk jockeys, looked back on his 22 years at the turntables, summed up: "Frankly, I feel like a complete heel playing this terrible music all day. But, I tell you this, anybody who's got a good rating has gotta play lousy music. For five years in the beginning I tried to play good stuff- Louis, the Duke, Bix. I starved. Then one day I played a Lombardo record; a week later I had a sponsor. Let's face it, this...
...builders' growing financial problem: projects were so huge that few companies had the means or courage to tackle them since a single mistake might wipe them out. But in joint ventures, with many companies sharing costs and profits (or losses), construction men could aim at the moon...
...seven melodies on a TV quiz show (his flub: the prelude to Act III of Lohengrin), happily sent his $800 prize to his old alma mater, New Orleans' Milne Municipal Home for Boys, where Satchmo was sent at 13 after he prankishly fired a pistol at the moon to celebrate New Year...
...apparent smoothness may be an illusion. Dr. Wilkins believes that the moon's surface is solid, not covered with dust, but he fears that it may be cluttered with small, sharp-edged ridges. Through the early telescopes, the ridges could not be seen, but as telescopes have improved, more and more of them have appeared. There is a good chance that even the smoothest-looking parts of the moon may be cut-up badlands. Dr. Wilkins suggests that moon voyagers make no advance decisions about landing sites. Their spaceship had better approach with caution, like a crippled airplane picking...
Even the most cautious approach may not assure a safe landing. It is possible, says Dr. Wilkins, that the moon is made of brittle, bubbly rock, with many fragile cavities just below the surface. This treacherous stuff may be too weak to support an appreciable weight. The spaceship that blunders into it will be in no condition to take off again for the long voyage home...