Word: mooned
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Just when the whole planet seemed to be spinning out of control, everyone stopped on June 20, 1969, to watch two men walk on the moon. It was the most thrilling night in exploration's history and is sure to be a day that our issue will remember. --By Mitch Frank
...there's one thing you always want to keep in the back of your mind. And that is the state of the night sky. The U.S. Air Force likes to begin its bombing campaigns on moonless nights, and in Iraq, for about two weeks in early March, the moon will remain below the horizon until at least...
...nationalists debated whether he bore a closer resemblance to Bismarck or to Saladin. In widespread pro-Iraq protests, the refrain in the streets was "With our blood, our souls, we will sacrifice for Saddam!" Some Arabs even swore they saw the face of Saddam on the surface of the moon...
...changes everything by the time the sun goes down. Some of those days we remember by the numbers alone--not only 9/11 but also days like Nov. 22, 1963. Others we remember by a single dramatic step after years of preparation, as when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, or by thousands of simultaneous steps, as when Allied soldiers scrambled onto the beaches of Normandy...
...divided comic-book readers for generations. Wolverine, an American superhero from the venerable Marvel stable, is a hulking genetic mutant with claws like knives. Yugi, a manga character from Japan, is a stunted schoolboy with a penchant for games and puzzles, low self-esteem and eyes the size of moon pies. When classmates pick on Yugi, girls jump to his defense...