Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. The ghost of the past haunts every serious Eugene O'Neill drama, upsetting the appetite of anyone who hopes to partake of the feast of life. In this play, three emotionally starved characters hunger for a love that is denied them...
...orbit around the earth. But after Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell trained his 250-ft. Jodrell Bank radio telescope on the receding craft and analyzed its signals, he told the world exactly what the Russians were trying to do. Zond's mission, he stated, was to fly around the moon and return for a safe landing on earth, a feat never before accomplished...
...mission, the more embarrassing it would be to have to admit failure if anything went wrong. "A base canard," said a Soviet spokesman in response to Lovell's statement. But Lovell had strong evidence to back up his story. Zond 5 had been tumbling as it approached the moon, he said, but it was finally stabilized. It passed about 1,200 miles from the lunar surface, radioing back great bursts of data and even voice transmissions-probably from a tape recorder. Finally there was a dramatic change in the transmissions and an enormous increase in power. "The whole exercise...
Proud Postscript. Just two days later, blandly ignoring their previous denial, the Soviets reported that Zond 5 had indeed flown around the moon. It carried out its "program of research in outer space," they said, and was continuing on its flight. Then Lovell added a postscript: the Soviet news agency Tass, he told reporters, had actually called Jodrell Bank to ask what was happening to the spacecraft...
...launch into their wail ing finale, My Generation ("I hope I die before I get old"), strange things do begin to happen. Clunk! Lead Singer Roger Daltrey flings the microphone to the floor, wheels around and begins flailing at the drums played by Keith Moon. Crack! Peter Townshend breaks his guitar against the stage, jumps on it, then splinters it against a speaker cabinet. Crash! John Entwistle heaves his bass away and joins the others in a savage orgy of kicking and pushing at the loudspeakers, the drums and the mike stand...