Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent morning Liberator B for Baker sighted a surfaced U-boat, bright in the moonlight. Immediately he released depth charges. The sub fired back with cannon, then dived. For 2 ½ hours B for Baker searched for it. saw nothing. Then suddenly R for Roger sighted it again and dove to attack from 60 feet. But Roger's bombs stuck, and on his second try shells from the battling sub wrecked his hydraulic system. Over & over he circled to keep watch on the sub while his gunner slithered in oil trying to fix the bomb releases...
...watched the Grandolets growing richer, and Victoria becoming the cool, aloof mother of the Grandolet heir, did not know that the household was anything but successful. Victoria did not know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began to cry with the back of her hand against her mouth, stepped blindly into the gallery well and crashed through the crystal chains of the chandelier to her death on the floor of the hall...
...Bernard Martin, 51, tall, businesslike skipper of the Benson Ford (carrying cargo for U.S. Steel because the Ford fleet has excess capacity) reported "ideal" weather on his trip from Duluth through the Soo Locks to Conneaut, Ohio, and though the Sault River buoys had already been taken in, bright moonlight made it easy for him to pick his way at night...
...Long before dawn of D Day the first wave of Marines was in its boats, the second wave was climbing down the nets in half-moonlight. At 5 a.m. the sky lit up like the crack of doom: battleship guns were pounding Betio. Soon light and heavy cruisers joined the concert of inferno. Ashore, flames spurted hundreds of feet high. Surely, the Marines thought, mortal men could not stand such pounding...
...modern England as "a professional soldier with a laugh like a horse with whooping-cough" dismounted from his horse after Waterloo after 18 hours in the saddle, was nearly killed when the horse kicked, and was cheered by his wounded men as he passed them in the ghostly moonlight. Later, at his headquarters, whenever the door opened he looked up quickly, thinking it might be one of his missing officers. After Waterloo he said, "The hand of God has been over me this day," and went...