Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages. During the debate on the matter, the Ukrainian delegate boasted that Communist guerrillas in Indonesia had launched a new offensive against Soekarno's republic. For Indonesians, as Soekarno himself had put it: "Things are not yet all moonlight and roses...
...lifeguard who can't be bothered with sunglasses may look handsomer than his begoggled colleagues, but he is not the man to take the wheel during a moonlight drive. And the factory worker who tries to relax while squinting tearfully into the ocean glare may, as a result, have an accident at the work bench more than a week later. The effects of overexposure to bright sunlight last longer than most people realize...
...Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind of Manhattan merry-go-round that teen-agers dream about for their first visit to New York. So naturally it was just...
...such sins as tennis and profanity. "Besides," said Gil-Martin, "you ought to consider what great advantages would be derived to the cause of righteousness and truth were the estate and riches of that opulent house in your possession." Robert considered, and ran his brother through the back one moonlight night...
...Stop Falling Hair?" They are a hard bunch to live with when they lose. Last month, after losing a tough game in Philadelphia, a couple of Cardinals made the mistake of singing Moonlight and Roses while the team was riding the bus to the station. Said Eddie Dyer sharply: "If you've got to sing, wait until I get off this bus. I don't see anything to sing about." Things were different after they had taken a game from Cincinnati and learned that Brooklyn had blown one to Boston. They gave Doc Weaver, the club trainer...