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Word: blackout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other units in similar fashion, an unearthly quiet enveloped the snowy front. Earlier, the Chinese Reds had celebrated the settlement of a tentative cease-fire line with a display of military fireworks-red, yellow and green flares. As the fighting dwindled, the Reds, disregarding the usual front-line blackout, built bonfires. Through field glasses, U.N. troops could see them smoking cigarettes, drinking tea, playing volleyball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: What Does This Mean? | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Robert Hall, Yale's director of athletics, denied yesterday a news release quoting him as saying there would be a complete blackout of college television in 1952. "I definitely feel," Mr. Hall stated, "that there is a place for television in college football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Hall Misquoted: NCAA Wants Pigskin Televising Controlled | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

Robert A. Hall, director of athletics at Yale, predicted yesterday that there would be a complete television blackout of 1952 college football, if the Justice Department did not rule it illegal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall Predicts Ban In '52 of College Football Telecasts | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...stadium at Lexington, Ky., had been sold out. Louisville's station WHAS-TV was ready & willing to telecast the game; University of Kentucky officials were eager to have it televised. But the telecast was banned just the same. Reason: the National Collegiate Athletic Association's experimental blackout, designed to test the effect of TV on football attendance (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Football Blackout | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Different sorts of games will be broadcast each weekend from September 22 through November 24. On three Saturdays out of these ten, there will be a complete blackout in the area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football TV To Be Cut in Receipts Test | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

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