Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meantime, Rommel's forces were being interdicted by the Royal Air Force -- and by Hitler, who had again begun to skim off reinforcements for the / Russian front. On the night of Oct. 23-24, under a full moon, the British opened fire on German positions with at least 900 artillery pieces, creating such powerful shock waves that some Axis soldiers were stunned to death. As fate would have it, Rommel was not on hand to rally his demoralized troops. A month earlier, he had gone home for treatment of a stomach disorder. Alarmed, Hitler ordered the still ailing Rommel back...
...nearly impossible for administrators to accurately forecast overcrowding in the houses. Numbers of inter-collegiate transfers, inter-house transfers, and leaves of absences are not known until the end of summer. Assistant to the Currier House Masters Patricia Pepper says, "Crowding is funny. It kind of goes with the moon...
BOOKS William Least Heat-Moon's delightful look at prairie life...
...simple sentences usefully across a flat place. This is not new information to those who read his 1983 best seller, Blue Highways, a marvelously quirky account of a 13,000-mile side-roads motor ramble around the U.S. He is better known by his pen name, William Least Heat- Moon, which comes from the Osage Indian part of his heritage. His father was Heat-Moon, meaning July, the hot month; his older brother Little Heat- % Moon; and he himself last and Least. To avoid explaining all of this repeatedly on his reporting meanders, he goes for everyday purposes by Trogdon...
William Least Heat-Moon...