Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midsummer week of full moon, history overworked. Who did not know before that he lived in an age of gigantic events (although not of giants), knew it last week...
Outside on the Capitol grounds one warm night last week, tourists and hand-holding lovers listened under a creamy moon to an Army band. Inside the Capitol, some 400 Congressmen milled, yelled and reeled through the next-to-last voting stage of the Defense Production...
...still a shambles. It is now a town of shanties and tents, and stone gates in front of vanished houses. But trade of a sort is reviving in Chinju. Barbers do a rush business, with customers seated in opulent-looking chairs salvaged from the wreckage. A businessman named Lim Moon Bong has scraped together $1,600 to build the town's finest postwar structure, the "Lighthouse Tearoom," with nautical fixtures...
About 2½ billion years ago, a ball of whirling gases, intensely hot and rushing through the black spaces of the universe at immense speed, gradually became the earth. At one point, a great chunk of earthly substance was torn away-and the earth had a moon. The atmosphere developed, then came countless years of rain, filling in great gaps on the earth's surface. Thus the oceans were born...
...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. An amiable U.S. Army captain, assigned as an occupation administrator, is presented with two respectable geisha girls as "souvenirs," and learns about the Okinawan way of life from them. Pleasant summer reading (TIME, June...