Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coli joined a Green Beret detachment of two officers and ten enlisted men stationed at Due Co, southwest of Pleiku and only a few miles from the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Green Berets had good reason to be edgy. The study began during the dark of the moon. The monsoon was beginning. Ho's birthday was approaching. And U.S. intelligence kept warning Captain Wells E. Cunningham that an attack on his tiny force was imminent...
Then one member of the audience forth-rightly inquired about mining possibilities on the moon. "This would be very expensive" Sagan replied. "Even if there are lots of diamonds on the moon, it might not pay to bring them back. If anything were mined on the moon, it would have to be something not found anywhere on earth -- perhaps some terrific hallucinogen...
...place and forgotten. But latest reports show that illiterate women who can't count can still take their pills on schedule. In Pakistan, Denver's Dr. John C. Cobb got dozens of them to do it, simply by starting them on the night of the new moon. In semiliterate Taiwan, where lUDs have won wide acceptance, more and more women are switching to the pills. The number of users outside the U.S. is about 5,000,000, and the figure is rising...
...Doodlebugged Again." Though McDonnell's engineers are already looking beyond the moon to Mars and Venus, Mr. Mac is also betting part of his bankroll on earthbound expansion?notably the development of vertical- and short-takeoff-and-landing craft for intercity air travel. "It's bound to come," he insists. By his calculations, as early as 1975 V/STOL planes could grab half the commercial travel over such short hops as San Francisco to Los Angeles...
...Moon and Six Guineas is a brittle-brutal study of a once fashionable painter, John Howland, a "Bostonian and Mayflower descendant, educated at Dixwell Latin School and Harvard." He made his first mistake in becoming an artist; his second was to leave-together with his corny canvases-a portfolio of pornographic sketches. His daughter and heir destroy this Back Bay smut. The Auchincloss irony? That the smut just might have restored the reputation of Howland's square work in today's crooked intellectual auction room...