Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with four victims); the Vampire, who killed at least nine between 1944 and 1949, and ceremoniously drank a glass of each victim's blood. Now there was the Strangler of Notting Hill...
...avoid his ships. In the harbor of Trincomalee, Ceylon, Japanese airplanes sank two neighboring ships; U-boats in the West Indies knocked off three ships sailing close at hand. But nothing happened to any of Captain Drent's commands, and nothing interfered with his astronomical studies. The wartime blackout was actually a help: it allowed the captain's eyes to adjust to darkness, the better to observe the zodiacal light...
Like Columbus? The cold war has thrown a blackout over all rocket research. The real rocket experts, working on guided missiles, are therefore sworn to secrecy. Not one man on earth who knows the latest developments can talk freely about them. Men who do not know can let their fancies run wild, for they have no fear of expert contradiction...
...that he would soon disappear behind the security curtain for his trip to Korea. In Seoul, the Korean government erected welcoming banners, archways and Ike portraits. U.N. Commander Mark Clark flew to Korea from Tokyo to take charge of Ike's protection, and put Seoul through a practice blackout. Back home, Ike Classmate Omar Bradley assured a television audience that Ike would go close enough to the Korean front "to talk to division commanders, lower commanders, and even a bunch of soldiers, sailors and airmen themselves...
...though French Communist papers managed to find out enough to print a map of them. Newsmen were refused information on a new headquarters building, though details of the building's vital "war room" were printed in the Communist papers. They had picked up the information from workmen. The blackout on news has also prevented SHAPE from counteracting propaganda from Moscow. When Malenkov recently took a backhanded slap at SHAPE by saying Russia's armed forces were no bigger than in 1939, NATO officials refused to comment to newsmen. Not until a month later, when the matter...