Word: moonlit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright, moonlit night when antiaircraft guns around Yontan airstrip in west central Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...
hospital ships to sail within 15 miles of their base at Truk) was suddenly thrown overboard. Out of a clear moonlit night a Kamikaze plane dove into the U.S.S. Comfort, steaming southeast of Okinawa with its lights ablaze, in accordance with international law. The crippled 700-bed mercy ship, with 29 dead, limped toward port...
...until the first bombing that he really found out what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...
...Moonlit Mackerel. When Franklin Roosevelt appointed Fly to the FCC chairmanship in 1939, FCC was a seven-man tangle of bickering members. Its job was to regulate radio, telegraph and telephone communications, but it was not having much success. Radio, as Fly saw it, was a newly rich business which had little idea of its public responsibility. It was, he decided, a "duopoly" dominated by two national networks (NBC and CBS), and Fly set out to break...
...himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners. She goads a Job-like bus driver (Buster Keaton) into leaving his dreary route for a gently berserk tour of the moonlit seashore. She takes Hall to San Diego's Zoo where, with very sensible leisure, the camera forgets all about the plot to watch a couple of engaging bears, hindfeet clasped in paws, rock back & forth on their bottoms...