Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then came an air hop over the Dragoon Mountains to Elfrida (pop. 300), near the Mexican border, another to lettuce-growing Willcox (pop. 1,500), where Goldwater changed shirts for a dinner with the Willcox Women's Republican Club. Not till 10 p.m., when a golden quarter-moon was sinking into the saguaro, did the campaigner call it a day. Taking off from a scrub-lined strip without lights, he flew into Tucson, checked in at the Pioneer Hotel, took off his shirt, pants and shoes, ordered a brace of Old Crows (splashed with water, but no ice), swallowed...
...Russia, where he got the "runaround" when he asked to see Russian equipment. "We were not shown," he said last week, "any of the satellite computing equipment or centers, in spite of great efforts and many requests to see them. We saw none of the installations except the moon-watch program, which is copied from ours at the Smithsonian Observatory...
...Navy last week announced contracts to build a radio telescope costing $60 million. The project has two defense purposes: 1) the telescope's enormous dish antenna, over 400 ft. in diameter, can act as a beam transmitter and bounce powerful radio signals off the moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able...
...Agassiz, there is a man named Earle Edgerton acting in a play called The Moon is Blue. You ought...
...Moon is Blue belongs to a genre of its own; it is comedy that hovers close to the bedroom without ever quite making its way inside. One might say that the present production totters rather than hovers, but the point remains; it is very funny stuff. Surprisingly enough, the funny stuff is concocted with the most hackneyed characters imaginable: a personable young man of high principles, a fresh-faced ingenue, a jaded roue, and a belligerent Irish cop. The plot is too complicated to discuss, and wouldn't be worth it anyway; the humor derives from epigram and situation...