Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PLOUGHMAN OF THE MOON - Robert Service- Dodd, Mead...
Summer had faded into the season which Western Indians called The-Moon-When -Deer -Rub -Their -Horns; September's hot days and moonless nights held the first, smoky promise of fall. Across the continent the people of the U.S. looked at a land at peace after the years...
...burned . . . clothes are covered with dust. . . . The Japanese people, who love bathing so much, are not able to bathe. . . . Even the vegetables of the family gardens . . . were entirely blown away by this recent typhoon. . . . Through the roofs of the people's very humble temporary living quarters . . . shines the moon and also leaks the rain...
...signature, "Slasher Evans." A young Detroit girl received a phone call threatening her life. One fearful insomniac sought police protection because he heard mysterious noises in the night. Every prostrate drunk brought forth a murder rumor. Mystic-minded citizens noted that all the murders had occurred under a full moon...
Strong Man Juan Domingo Peron, the soldier-opportunist who yearned to be President-Dictator, had tried everything: the trappings and struttings of Fascism, anti-U.S. nationalism, an anti-Communist witch hunt. He had promised the moon to the Argentine working man, the same moon to Argentine industrialists. He had made gestures toward U.S. democracy, and had hinted at lining up (if worst came to worst) with the U.S.S.R. By last week's end, the returns were pouring in and they were not pleasant reading for Colonel Peron...