Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stars to denote U.S.C.'s contribution to the fighting forces. Sorority girls who turned up their noses at privates a year ago will go necking with them now. Just after Pearl Harbor the prevailing attitude was "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we drill"; in the first blackout last winter, U.S.C. fraternity men made merry chasing around sorority houses. Now they take blackouts seriously...
...Community Theater veterans assembled to get the play in shape. Dramatic careers being strictly extra curricular in Hawaii, the cast includes several university professors, a protege of Martha Graham, and even a couple of censors. . . . Nightly rehearsals were held in a windowless prop room, and because of the strict blackout and curfew orders, special passes had to be issued to get the actors through a line of itchy-fingered sentries each night...
...stage composed of dinner tables. When we do a show at night we usually travel in a convoy of army trucks and have a blanket night pass for the whole troupe. Several weeks ago, returning from Wheeler Field, the truck in which I was riding got lost in the blackout and strayed from the convoy...
Whether "the fleet's in" or "the fleet's awa" (convoys in or out), once-gloomy Glasgow bustles with workingmen. Pubs and musical music halls are jammed to blackout suffocation. Princes Street in Edinburgh is still beautiful, but even more exciting for the lasses now that there are hundreds of Polish and Norwegian fighting men who have adopted Scotland as their second home...
Describing dimout conditions in Cambridge as 99 percent complete, Major Ralph W. Robart, chief local air raid warden, said yesterday that "if this dimout effort is ineffective, the Army will be forced to order a full blackout for the duration...