Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Culture cheered, and the U.S. diplomatic corps stood bareheaded in the rain. It was clear that the bulge-muscled Americans, gathered in Moscow to bandy bar bells with the burliest Russians around, were as popular a bunch of visiting athletes as had competed in Russia in many a moon...
...From the Moon. Peking opera, the most famed and influential of many Chinese schools, is a mere 1,241 years old. Its founder was Emperor Hsuan who set it up, so the story goes, after he visited the moon and developed a taste for the entertainment in the Jade Palace of the lunar emperor. Luxurious as it is, Chinese opera is true popular entertainment, attended by anybody who can spare a few pennies, until its plots and morals have become a basic part of the culture...
...vast and luminous as a summer moon looms through a wheat stubble, and a long moment passes before the onlooker realizes that the hare it belongs to sits throbbing in terror of a stalking...
...evening officially concluded at 9 p.m., when the last of the buses began winding their way back to the Square. But unofficial reports indicate activity was unabated this morning when the moon gave way to the eastern glow...
...better than Harry Walker, though, how much Stanky has accomplished in rebuilding the Redbirds. Says he: "Baseball is played basically the same by all clubs. The players are the important thing." The Cards today have the players, all right-the lively oldtimers Musial and Schoendienst, some heavy-hitting youngsters, Moon, Repulski and Virdon, and a few reliable pitchers, Arroyo, Harvey Haddix (an 18-game winner last year) and fireballing Brooks Lawrence. To bring them along as fast as he can, Harry Walker uses one un-Stanky prescription: relaxation. "I feel that you should let the players be natural and avoid...