Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several girls were caught in electric elevators by the power failure. Overloaded wires was the probable reason for the blackout, according to 'Cliffe officials. Two weeks ago the quad was blackened four times within a two hour period...
Murray and Hall have been at odds since last spring, when Penn first refused to go along with the NCAA agreement to the TV blackout. Hall won the first skirmish when Penn was forced to back down under threat of expulsion from the NCAA...
...blackout has meant a considerable financial loss to Penn, which had already completed a lucrative TV contract before the NCAA clamped down in an effort to increase ticket sales. Penn doesn't stand to make money on today's TV broadcast either. They've promised to turn over all TV money to charity...
...following fall was enlivened by Boston power failure, which sent about students on a river to Radcliffe blackout blast. Leverett men rumored that the world was coming to an end, partly in jest and partly as consolation to friends who had lost Bursar's cards in the Sunday night affair...
...days, only vague hints of progress came through the newly imposed news blackout. Then the Reds broke the spell. Peking radio announced that the allies had submitted a new proposal, but since it was still based on voluntary repatriation, it had been turned down...