Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nicely designed job. It is dominated by a huge metal structure, called the Skyline, which looks like a cross between a V-2 rocket and a symmetrical cigar. When floodlighted at night, the Skyline looks as if it is floating in air without any means of support. This impresses blackout trained Londoners a good deal and when they show a visitor around the city at night they almost inevitably ride by the Bank and point...
...more than the rest of us, have swung a hoe in a paddy field or experienced the hatred of landlords ("feudalism") and foreign invaders ("imperialism") which has been the lot of so many of the Chinese people. Although we are much handicapped by the Communist news barrier and propagandas blackout, there are at least a few major points which can be kept in mind...
...airfields in North Korea-some with runways 5,000 or more feet long, capable of handling jets and bombers-for staging between Manchuria and the front lines. In the field, before the Red drive began, the U.N. forces had taken elaborate precautions against air attack. Radar surveillance and blackout discipline were intensified; motor pools and supply dumps were dispersed ; truck drivers were ordered to keep their distance in convoys, jeep drivers to remove the tops of their jeeps...
December 2--Two students expelled, 20 others put on probation for participation in blackout and Yale riots...
...facts, hard to come by in a stringent news blackout, would have to speak a lot louder before the West could find grounds for optimism in Indo-China...