Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made this country powerful has trickled down two generations to find itself running cloudily through the veins of foolish old men like Tommy Manville and foolish young pimps like Minot Jelke; where 22-year-old boys slip,cyanide into their parents' champagne; where middle-aged mothers and grandmothers moon like adolescents over a toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet...
...blue field) from lampposts and triumphal arches set up along Boulevard Albert I, the spanking concrete highway that bisects the capital city of Leopoldville. In far-off mission churches, encircled by the rain forest that stretches through Belgian territory from the Atlantic to the Mountains of the Moon, choirs of Bantu children rehearsed the Te Deum. African regiments drilled, jazz bands blared in the bush, and on the great brown river that drains the middle of the continent Negro captains tooted the raucous steam whistles on their swiftly gliding paddle boats...
...TheDickens of It." To DuBridge and the men of Caltech, knowledge is its own reward. The great principles discovered may one day lead to a cure for cancer or a trip to the moon. But Caltech is the home of purists-purists in a technological Babylon that sometimes appears to tolerate them only because they inevitably turn out to be the men behind the men behind some new physical blessing. For no tangible reason at all, the men of Caltech have peered into the dawn of time, measured the invisible, eavesdropped on thunder over Jupiter. Their goal...
...Turning point was Dec. 12, 1531, when an Indian peasant named Juan Diego reported a vision of the Virgin Mary and showed his cloak on which there was an image of a dark-skinned Madonna above a crescent moon. The Virgin of Guadalupe became the patroness of Mexico, and on the site of the Aztec temple to Mother-Goddess Tonantzin, Mexicans built the basilica that became their national shrine...
...Dinh Diem, his country's leading nationalist, has bodyguards outside his bedroom and a .45-cal. pistol in his desk. It is getting late in the Freedom Palace of Saigon, and Diem can sometimes be seen at his window on sultry nights, a chunky silhouette, staring at the moon...