Word: moonlit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angelenos had no doubt that they were being attacked. Early morning extras confirmed the fact. Said the Los Angeles Times: "Roaring out of a brilliant moonlit western sky, foreign aircraft flying both in large formation and singly, flew over Southern California. ... At 5 a.m. the police reported that an airplane had been shot down near 185th...
...hours one brilliantly moonlit night last week a strip of granite and concrete, 1,153 yards long and 20 yards wide, was the safety valve of the British Empire. The Battle of Malaya was lost; the Battle of Singapore was about to begin. Between the two battles there lay only the narrow strip connecting Johore and Singapore Island, known as the Causeway...
...more than a year M. Guichard led his villagers back & forth. Then someone talked. German authorities checked up, found as many maidens walked out on moonlit lanes as ever before, as many men plowed the fields, as many oldsters sat in the sun, drinking the wine of Cérilly and upbraiding the quality of the bread. With Teutonic thoroughness, statisticians laboriously calculated that Cérilly had celebrated so many funerals that virtually every living soul in the village should be dead by now. Revealed at last was M. Guichard's sly scheme which had truly Gallic...
...real effort was a third of the way up the Malay Peninsula. There the wary British spotted five Japanese transports landing troops across monsoon-chopped waters in the moonlit night. The British rushed to meet them and repulsed the first assault. But the first assault was just a diversion. Ten miles to the south ten more Japanese transports were disgorging their eager little beach-climbers. Here the Japanese gained a foothold, then filtered through jungles and swamps toward Kota Bhary, site of an airdrome and junction of railways running south to Singapore and north to Thailand...
...actually heard the people going by the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields on their way to shelters before a raid because Murrow laid his mike down on the sidewalk to pick up their unhurried footsteps. U.S. listeners sensed the strange silence between two raids on moonlit London because Murrow told them how loudly the liquid from two pierced cans of peaches dripped inside a smashed shop...