Word: moonlighting
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...Right after Pearl Harbor one of Franklin Roosevelt's officials saw the White House glowing in the bright moonlight and suggested it be painted black. The Army wanted it done in camouflage colors. FDR, who understood the power of great symbolism, ignored such nonsense and insisted the White House stay white and put up the Christmas lights for the world...
...course offerings, exposing the program’s 14,000 students to much of the same material that they teach to college students by day. However, many of the extension school students assert that they see a side of professors that only comes out by the moonlight...
...genres and antique grooves. The songs have a sense of history and a sense of discovery; hearing them is like finding a stack of vintage records in an old uncle's attic. The opening track, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, churns to a boogie-woogie-ish beat; the radiant Moonlight evokes Tin Pan Alley crooning and Western swing; and on the song High Water, Dylan pays tribute to blues pioneer Charley Patton. "All my songs, the styles I work in, were all developed before I was born," says Dylan. "When I came into the world, that spirit of things was still...
That Kennecott can moonlight as a land developer is an extreme example of how new pressures affect the mining business. While analysts uniformly laud Rio Tinto as the standard-bearer for industry responsibility, that's not a standard others agree with. "The corporate poster child for environmental and social abuses" is the way Joshua Karliner of Corp Watch describes Rio Tinto's global activities...
...being the best female golfer. As recently as the late '50s, Althea Gibson, who won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open twice each with a racquet, also enjoyed a swell career with a driver. Today sprinter Marion Jones, who starred in college hoops at North Carolina, would love to moonlight in the WNBA but knows she can't. If she shifts focus for a nano, she's lost...