Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life for men and women is full of difficulties. And if the difficulties are mostly trivial, they dampen the spirits perhaps even more than splendid trials. Though there has not been a major bombing raid in nearly a year, there is total, blackout every night, everywhere. The first experience of a blackout has its interesting points, but on the 1,001st night it is only a bloody nuisance...
...second feature, "Pacific Blackout," is a slightly fantastic account of what might go on during a practice black-out, and it may give you some idea of what not to do when the next black-out catches you on the Widener steps without anything...
...softening. It was the time of year when people began to watch for the gentle pink and white rioting of cherry blossoms in the parks. On weekends families would swarm by thousands from the rickety alleys of the Asakusa and Honjo working-class districts, where they had nervously hung blackout shades in their flimsy houses. By foot or bus or train they would take to the parks-to Asakusa, with its booths of cheap souvenirs and its great red temple of Kwannon; to Uyeno, with its museums and galleries; or to Shiba, with its tree-shrouded tombs of the shoguns...
...sighing wind, and relay the sounds to a watchman five miles away. These pastoral effects, however, are usually filtered out; what the pickups are after are such contact noises as climbing, tunneling, wire-snipping and other signs of sabotage and trespass. Result: as good a watch in fog, blackout, darkness and storm as could be maintained by guards standing elbow to elbow...
Signal. In Opelika, Ala., all the townspeople turned out their lights for a test blackout when the wardens signaled with their whistles. Then a train tore through town, whistled, and all the lights went on again...