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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...12th century, according to the bawdy Chinese classic. Chin P'ing Mei, there lived a rich and lustful man named Hsi Men. When this libertine wished to indulge in what is delicately called wind and moon play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...mortal shell finally cracked from overexposure to wind and moon, and he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...congratulate you on your article in the Nov. 23 issue on the possibilities of life on the moon. It seems incredible that presidential candidates can discuss any other issue. I should be glad to have my taxes raised if I could be sure that this money would be spent on rocketry and missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...humble opinion, the man of 1959 was the Soviet scientist who gave the U.S.S.R. its greatest propaganda gains this year, put the first rocket on the moon, shot a rocket around the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Word from the Moon. The Russians seemed eager to be cooperative and, except when military matters were touched on, surprisingly willing to describe Soviet discoveries in space rocketry. At a Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, Academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov told in precise scientific terms how Lunik III was oriented by small gas jets to take its famous pictures of the far side of the moon (TIME, Nov. 9). Physicist Valerian I. Krasovsky gave a summary of scientific information that Soviet space shots have gathered so far. The Russians also showed a 25-minute movie of the behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Russians on Tour | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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