Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Jap was looking the other way, an amphibious U.S. force steamed by moonlight around Jap-held Kolombangara, landed at dawn on Vella Lavella's south eastern shore. Captured were some 350 surprised Nips, an unheard-of number of prisoners in the South Pacific. Other Japs fled into the jungle...
Dealing with the rivalry between the godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...
...seems that several of New England's frustrated civilians did not enjoy seeing Navy men walk hand in hand with their wives and/or girl friends--or perhaps reposing in the moonlight, as relaxation after studying...
...Capa saw the chutes float down "like strings of diminishing pearls" in the moonlight and flarelight. The formation, its mission safely accomplished, turned back toward Africa. The men landed below were gathering up equipment, scurrying into tactical groups...
That was what Sinatra's pressagent, George ("I like to keep their wings flapping") Evans, was waiting for. He pulled out all the publicity stops, began to multiply the inevitable fan clubs. There are hundreds of them now - from Moonlight Sinatra to the Frank Sinatra Fan and Mah-Jong Club, an association of 40 middle-aged women who meet to play their favorite game to the sweet warblings...