Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garden on the Moon. The greater part of Nevada (sixth largest state in the Union) is as bleak and uninhabited as the craters of the moon. The Federal Government owns 87% of the whole place, rocks, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and all, and its total population comes to 167,000 souls, only a few more than Bridgeport, Conn. It has only three industries-ranching, mining and the care and feeding of tourists. But arid Nevada has bloomed like a garden for Norman Biltz...
...Shook the hand of plump Elizabeth Hess, 13, the national spelling champion, and confessed that, as a small boy he had been spelled down on "syzygy." The President further obliged Elizabeth with a definition: "Having to do with the orbit of the moon" (pretty close to Webster's "The point of an orbit, as of the moon, at which the planet is in conjunction or opposition...
...MOON AND THE BONFIRES (206 pp.)-Cesare Pavese-Farrar, Straus & Young...
Dixie Treat. In Washington, B.C., the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that it had seized some Alabama moon shine whisky, selling for $2 a pint, made from the following ingredients: half a gal lon of water, one quart of orange juice, two pints of gin, one small jar of sassafras flavoring, a dash of sugar, half...
...Moon and the Bonfires is a return-of-the-native story in which Author Pavese develops a familiar 20th century theme, the need for roots. After 20 years of roaming, some of it in the U.S., his nameless narrator-hero comes back to the Piedmontese village of his boyhood. Born a bastard, he gets no prodigal's welcome, but the villagers who remember him are deferential before his hard-won rise to respectability. Wifeless and childless, he has few bonds with the future, is bent only on uncovering his links with the past...