Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...drawing on; the lights were out. The U. S. was asking Franklin Roosevelt: Watchman, what of the night? Politics was dead as ever politics can be. A dying Congress frittered and fidgeted, eagerly awaiting decent burial and January's rebirth. The U. S. promised Franklin Roosevelt the moon and sixpence, if only...
Last week General Richardson, his officers, his men, his horses toiled like mules, trying to wangle more than their allotted two divisions in the new Army. The Eighth Cavalry's Troop A night-marched into the desert, taught raw recruits to find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual...
...moon set soon after midnight in a swirl of blowing sand. Everything was ready. The main body had sneaked up in a remarkable rush, from Matruh the day and night before, 60 miles in one haul, and now they settled down on the cold sands for a valuable nap. Mechanized forces had deployed earlier in a sharp curve to the south and west, using the moonlight to dodge scrub and big desert boulders...
Although Truth or Consequences is close to complete lunacy, it is not quite so close as a weird audience-participation show (as yet unsponsored) called You Sell Me, which floated out from Chicago's WBBM a month ago. Presided over by ebullient, moon-faced Tommie Bartlett (TIME, July 1), You Sell Me is a kind of auction at which anything from a kiss to a shirt is purchased from spectators. Wandering around a WBBM studio with a portable mike, Bartlett haggles over shirts, stockings with holes in them, 1921 nickels. Usual price for such items...
...millions of words of news Americans get. nine in ten are not facts but opinion. To illustrate, Howe takes a sunrise, sunset, moon and tide report of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, presents it as it might have been written by A. P., U. P., I. N. S., Dorothy Thompson, Winchell, Lippmann, etc. Hugh Johnson version: "New Deal Janissaries are telling the world they have improved on Joshua who made the sun stand still. . . . Now I happen to know more about this subject of sun, moon and tides than I do about anything else. . . . If an outfit that...