Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From high in the Judean hills that evening, Jordanians counted 76 vehicles moving with lights undimmed toward the border south of Jerusalem. The Israelis snaked forward through wadies and past white boulders that gleamed like bones in the moonlight. "Can you see them?" a Jordan colonel asked. "Yes," answered an officer in a forward post. "I estimate a regiment." Moments later the Israelis struck in three forces, swarming over two village National Guard outposts and bayoneting the defenders, advancing with halftracks against their main objective, the Husan police fortress commanding the Jerusalem-Bethlehem road. After a bitter fight, they dynamited...
...sometimes seemed like a case of musical split personality. When he played It Might as Well Be Spring, he played the trumpet with a soft, low, fuzzy tone and a stammering swing that was as intimate as if he were whispering into a pretty ear. When he played Moonlight in Vermont, he played the vibraphone with soft-headed sticks, rolling out arpeggios as pretty and cottony as a cumulus cloud. When he played Makin' Whoopee, he played...
There's music in the air ... there's music in the hills ... there's music by the river ... there's music in the air-conditioned library. As a matter of fact, the interested Summer School student, whether his preference lies with J.S. Bach, with D. Brubeck, or simly with moonlight and grass, can hardly fail to find the musical interludes he is looking for during the months ahead...
DISASTERS Death in the Moonlight...
...that Plata had forgotten to turn off his blinking running lights, potential sparkmakers because of their constantly opening and closing electrical circuits. Mike Sierra began dumping gas. From his spot above and to the rear of the Constellation, Coast Guardsman Hancox saw small blue flashes plume off in the moonlight, then a bursting flame...