Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the day he entered the White House and announced that "the whole weight of the moon and stars and all the planets fell on me," he has been attacked, criticized, and ridiculed. He has had unfortunate incidents with members of his administration, and he has not been able to get important legislation through Congress...
Unruffled as always, British justice, is the person of periwigged Sir Reginald Powell Croom-Johnson, peered over the rims of its half-moon spectacles and remarked with acerbity: "This is a very ordinary case." But to the ruddy-cheeked Sussex countrymen who jammed a Lewes courtroorn last week, the air seemed charged with mysterious mesmeric forces. There was, for example, the plea of plaintiff's counsel that the defendant "should not sit anywhere in sight" of his client. "You are asking," inquired Justice Croom-Johnson, "that he should not hypnotize her?" Barrister John Flowers, Queen's Counsel, replied...
When it falters dramatically, With a Song in My Heart manages to give itself a lift musically with such songs as Blue Moon, Tea for Two, Embraceable You, and an Americana medley of eleven tunes, rang ing from California, Here I Come to Deep in the Heart of Texas...
Harmony on the Moon. Today, this gelatinous brain stuff, served up in pulp form, is selling at a rate never approached by Robinson Crusoe. In the Galaxy Reader, which presents 33 versions of the shape-of-things-to-come by 24 science-fiction writers, newcomers will have a chance to sample one of a half dozen such anthologies that have appeared so far this year. To help them over the bumps, Editor H. L. Gold supplies a commentary. Gold is mighty proud of his nest of singing birds, whose average age, he says, is 32 and whose work is distinguished...
...precocious calculating machine named Junior. He restores Russo-American harmony by arranging-among other things-for a U.S. space captain to sleep with a Russian cybernetics technician named Anna on the moon. Neither Anna nor the captain has much to offer in the way of character, but Author Frederic Brown makes Junior sound quite a human fellow...