Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high. In Kathmandu they found a two-storied bungalow awaiting their occupancy, together with gifts including venison, fowls and fruits from the Maharaja. Their guest house, as well as various durbar halls, were decorated with the Nepalese flag (a double red pennant on which is inscribed a sun and moon), flying beside the Stars & Stripes which had only 13 stars...
...Bocayuva, Brazil this week, an eager group of U.S. scientists were happily tuning up their instruments (everything from thermometers to a 6-29). They were waiting for the moon to eclipse the sun on May 20. The scientists had picked Bocayuva, 400 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, as the spot most likely to have clear skies on the big day. If clouds should blind the ground instruments, airplanes will take off early to observe what they can from high altitudes...
...Battle of the Cities. One way to tell how the battle is going is to list the cities the Communists have taken over through their victories in municipal elections. Such cities as Sofia and Bucharest and Belgrade have always seemed to be on the other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo...
...also got drunk, He saw the moon in the Yellow River And was drowned...
...town. "A small stone quarry, deserted and bleak, lay quite near to a still completely urban house. . . . Now they loosened their hold of K., who stood waiting dumbly, took oft their top hats and wiped the sweat from their brows with pocket handkerchiefs, meanwhile surveying the quarry. The moon shone down with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses...