Word: moonlighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Dortmund lay there as if in bright moonlight. Suddenly I was aware of the cause. From Allied planes, light bombs fell slowly. Incendiaries in much greater numbers than in the first raid poured down. Many houses were already burning. Now & then air mines exploded...
Nineteen Lancasters droned through the soft spring night, their dampened exhausts faintly luminescent. Below, the German landscape unrolled steadily, remote and softly gleaming in the moonlight. Fields and forests, villages and towns slipped past their wings, and then the planes were over Westphalia...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...