Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanker Gulftrade, out of Port Arthur, Tex. with a cargo of oil, ploughed through the heavy seas off Barnegat Light, some 60 miles from her destination, New York City. When the lookout reported several vessels in the vicinity, chubby, moon-faced Captain Torger Olsen imprudently ordered his darkened ship's lights turned on. Said he ruefully: "I saw we were up to Barnegat and I thought they shouldn't be able to get us any more. I made a mistake...
...dozen years ago Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings decided that she would never make a writer, quit her job on a Rochester, N.Y. newspaper, bought an orange grove at Cross Creek in Florida. There she wrote South Moon Under and The Yearling, a book that will be read, at least as a juvenile classic, when most of the books of the last 20 years are forgotten...
...pigs to boot. . . . Now I'm carrying that sow there to Mr. Martin's boar hog. You know sows?" Mrs. Rawlings said no. "Well, a sow's peculiar. Times, she'll take, and again she'll not take. It all depends on the moon. Now last moon, she'd not of took. This moon, I figger she'll take. And if she takes-mind, if she takes Mr. Martin'll take her for the debt." Author Rawlings found the ways of Mr. Martin, Mr. Higgenbotham, sows and the moon rather complicated...
...mischievous moon came...
...Rhymer in such fast company. But when Samuel Riddle's War Relic was scratched the day before the race, leaving Jockey Eddie Arcaro without a mount, Gaver decided to take a chance. "It goes to show," said he, "that if you don't aim at the moon once in a while, you'll never...