Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to the plants of the pro-government El Mundo and La Fronda. While police guarded the buildings with machine guns, and Evita Perón's Social Aid Foundation (for the destitute and aged) rushed in bedding and food, the esquiroles (squirrels, i.e., strikebreakers) kept the newspaper blackout from being complete. But the single editions they turned out contained little more than cheesecake pictures and ready-made material including an editorial entitled "Three Years of Legality." Neither paper mentioned the strike...
...typical scene of the novel is London in the blackout of 1942; the relations of human beings to each other have become fragmentary, indefinable and constantly subject to shock. To the apartment of attractive Stella Rodney comes a visitor known to her only as Harrison. He tries to argue her into being seduced and fails. He makes fantastic charges about Stella's friend and faithful lover, Captain Robert Kelway, and, for a time, fails to make the fantastic believable...
...wage boost to meet the soaring cost of living-seemed mild enough by recent Argentine standards. But before the week was out, the printers had defied both their officers and the government, and shut down all newspapers in Buenos Aires. In the weird half-light of the resulting news blackout, Argentines watched as shadowy figures pulled & hauled, and Juan Perón's government teetered...
...Blackout Haits Work...
...reporters who want to write their own copy. To try to rectify the situation, the Chicago Tribune's strongwilled Jules Dubois "took his life in his hands" and barged across the street to the palace amid the rifle fire, demanding to see President Ospina about the communications blackout. He failed to see Ospina, but he did return with the news that dispatches would be accepted-subject to censorship...