Word: moonless
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...murders bear a chilling similarity. All have occurred on moonless nights between 10 o'clock and midnight. In each case, police think, the man was killed first. The woman was then shot and, with the exception of the 1968 attack, sexually mutilated. Police tests indicate that the attacker wore rubber surgical gloves during the crimes...
...crisp night early this month, Astronomers Stephen Edberg and Charles Morris, both 33, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., drove up a rocky slope on Mount Waterman, 25 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Scanning the moonless heavens with his binoculars, Morris sighted a faint light source. Then he located the same diffuse blob with his naked eyes. Meanwhile, Edberg sketched the position of the dim light and compared his drawing with the magnified view of the object provided by his binoculars. Sure enough, there it was. The two men had made the first unaided sighting of Halley...
They came at three o'clock on a moonless morning, a dozen men dressed in black, faces covered by balaclavas, hurling ropes and grappling hooks up onto the decks of the Dewi Madrim and swarming up the ship's sides. As his cohorts smashed in the windows of the bridge with their automatic rifles, one of the men pinned the sole officer on duty in a corner and pressed the barrel of a pistol to his head. "They asked him to tell them where the rest of the crew were," recounts the chemical tanker's captain at the time, Surahmat...
...with his genteel Western airs, is seemingly bent on out-Englishing the English. His story takes some time to reveal itself as a mystery, but it does so when Obeysekere takes on the case of a respectable English planter--Hamilton--who gets shot in the chest. "Murder, a moonless night, the jungle crowding close...
...ahead came on the evening of April 1. As Marines staged a diversionary attack, besieging nearby Iraqi irregulars, Army Rangers set up a perimeter around the hospital. It was a moonless night, but the stars were bright enough to guide the Navy SEALs who slipped into the hospital. Led to her room by a doctor on duty, the SEALs opened the door and asked for Jessica Lynch. At first, she was silent, a sheet pulled tightly over her head. "We're U.S. soldiers," said one of the SEALs. "We're here to protect you and take you home." She responded...