Word: moonlighting
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Says she: "I had a good childhood . . . girlhood . . . virginhood. . . . The Long Island Sound under moonlight, the waves playing music against the shore . . . the taste of warm tomatoes eaten from the garden. . . . The bustle of Christmas, the taut joy of gifts . . . bare feet on wet dawn lawns...
...special blackout street lamp has been announced by General Electric. It is made of plastics and cast iron, with no glass, hence is fairly immune to shrapnel. The lamp is 9 candle power, gives one-sixtieth the illumination of full moonlight, i.e., barely enough to distinguish a pedestrian at 40 feet...
Painter Carroll is, as it happens, mainly known as a painter of women-tilt-nosed madonnas who suggest fragile wisps of a moonlight reverie. Painted in foamy tones, with appealing childlike faces and flickering bodies trailing lingerie like the draperies of an El Greco saint, Carroll's women sell like hotcakes at $1,000 up. (An Italian laborer once slashed one from its frame and took it home to be "his woman.") His pictures are also collected by the soberest U.S. museums as examples of the finest contemporary U.S. art. They resemble (in an etherealized form) his pert...
...never got to Chungking. It was moonlight when the fighters met his 50 bombers somewhere east of the city, and no fighter could be sure that the bomber he started smoking with his tracers actually went down. But the bomber formations broke and their pilots struck for home-all but four, which plowed on toward Chungking. Near the edge of the city the fighters caught them. They jettisoned their bombs in open fields and streaked away. From its dugouts, after three hours, Chungking emerged. Its cakes had been eaten, its morale bolstered by what U.S. flyers, with Chinese help...
China's spies were right. After a few tentative passes at the city, the enemy sent over three smashing raids-more than 100 planes in all. Hengyang's defenders were only ten and they fought in the moonlight as well as by day. Within 32 hours they could count at least ten crack Zeroes among the 17 planes they had knocked down. Their own loss: one plane, crash-landed; no pilot...