Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Girl (letting her tractor stand idle for a moment): How wonderful it is to work on such a beautiful night under the full moon and do one's utmost to save petrol...
...Moon is Blue...
...Governor: Democrat Dever, 49, who is generally conceded to be one of the smartest politicians ever to sit on Beacon Hill, is a moon-faced bachelor with a hearty Irish smile. During his two terms as governor, he has loaded the state payroll with his supporters and has thereby created Massachusetts' most formidable personal machine. Dever can and does point with pride to a $400 million highway program and construction of schools, hospitals and public housing. But many Massachusetts TV owners who watched the corpulent governor keynote the Democratic National Convention were distressed at his resemblance to any cartoonist...
...Portugal, such an injuction in the middle of a love song is as standard as June & moon rhymes in the U.S. Fado (pronounced fah-doo), distantly related to kismet, means fate or destiny, and turns up in general conversation as often as "good luck" does...
...geographers, the width of the broad Atlantic has been measured less in miles than in the hours, days and weeks it has taken men to cross it. In Columbus' day, the other side of the ocean seemed as far away as the other side of the moon. His caravels crawling painfully across the Atlantic for 71 days brought it very little closer. The gap (67 days) put between themselves and their homeland gave the Mayflower pilgrims a sense of freedom they could never find on King James's side of the water...