Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annular eclipse the moon is unusually far from the earth, so that it seems smaller than the full face...
...kept the solar system in an uproar, charging among the peaceful planets like *a bull at a Sunday-school picnic. It zoomed past the earth again when the Children of Israel, commanded by Joshua, were tangling with the Amorites. Said Joshua: "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies." (Joshua...
...nervous, quick-moving, high-strung guy," said one of his close friends later. "He could no more stand calmly and confess than he could fly to the moon." Nevertheless, Vogeler stood almost motionless^ before the Budapest court and, in a voice as monotonous as the drone of a litany, confessed to having plotted against the Red regime...
Princeton scientists do not contemplate a trip to the moon in the near future, contrary to a recent report by Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in the New York Journal American...
Somerset Maugham adapts nicely to film; "Of Human Bondage" and "Quartet" have shown this pretty well. It is certainly true of "The Moon and Sixpence." Maugham's reworking of the life of Paul Gauguin, of a man who chucks social mediocrity to become an intense, self-centered, and occasionally cruel painter, comes over with most of the book's neat narrative intact...