Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plus-Two: At 0300, after the moon sets, the Reds charge in through the dark. At 0400, they storm into Gabrielle. The French battalion commander falls. At dawn, De Castries thrusts tanks and a reserve Foreign Legion battalion toward the shrouded hill. Red bazookas stop the tanks but do not stop the legion. "Some Viets were dug in, so we cleaned them out," says a legion officer. "There were Viets everywhere, shoulder to shoulder. A Viet shot me. I fired my pistol at the Viet. He was dead, not me. Another Viet tried to bayonet...
...Times to the Moon. The protons keep together like a swarm of bees, and each time they circle the track, they get a boost of electrical energy that increases their speed. Round and round they go, 4,000,000 times in 1.85 seconds. After they have traveled 300,000 miles (1.25 times the distance to the moon), they are moving at almost the speed of light, and each proton carries an explosive cargo of energy...
...Blue Moon (Duke Ellington & His Quintet; Capitol). The Duke tries a small combo for this fevered version. Jimmie Grissom sobs out the vocal...
...goona, goona-goona lagoon . . . We will spoon-a, spoon-a, spoon beneath the moon...
...President Mason, 63, has an initial order for 20,000 of his new Metropolitans, and if it goes over may set up a line in the U.S. to produce the car. A pudgy (240 Ibs., 5 ft. 9 in.), moon-faced engineer, he climbed up through the auto industry working for Studebaker, Dodge, Chrysler, then took over Kelvinator Corp. in 1927, at a time when the company was overexpanded and losing money. Mason turned the losses into profit, then had the job to do all over again in 1936 when Kelvinator merged with Nash, which was losing...