Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright moonlight their boat slipped through the minefields, past the Cavite shoreline, where Jap artillery blazed intermittently at Forts Drum and Hughes. Beyond the bay they laid a tricky course to freedom. "A tight feeling in our stomachs," they sat on deck with legs and arms crossed as well as fingers. When a member of the crew wrung a chicken's neck, "the agonized squawk made us jump, our stomachs rejoining us some time after...
Again the brilliant moonlight after...
...broadcasts from Marrila ceased, not to be resumed for two days and then only under a censorship that required broadcasters to submit their script well in advance of air time. Excerpts of what Bert Silen and his relief announcer Don Bell put on the radio telephone in the shiny moonlight during the first raid...
...Monday NBC broadcast two recordings of previous programs-the third and fourth time it has ever done so. One was President Roosevelt's speech before Congress. The other was an eyewitness account of Manila under Japanese bombers by the moonlight of early morning. And on Monday, too, since radio is a two-way affair, the Office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel Donovan) suggested to all U.S. short-wave stations that in reporting news to Europe they "make no attempt to gloss over the gravity of the first day's losses of the U.S. in the Pacific...
...thin edge of commercial publishing, the year's most notable were Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen. Miller continued with Michael Fraenkel his extraordinary correspondence about Hamlet ($3) and published The Colossus of Maroussi ($3.50), a freewheeling book on Greece. Patchen's privately printed The Journal of Albion Moonlight ($5) was a nightmarish image of the state of the human soul in the year...