Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for this phenomenon is the fact that there will be an eclipse of the moon at 8:30 p.m. according to several newspaper science editors. Semi-documentary movies now being filmed on the moon are expected to halt operations during the blackout...
...broad daylight, the fleet steamed through the Shimonoseki Straits and cut into the Japan Sea, quite obviously bound for Korea. By sunset of the first day out, the festivities were on the wane. Rear Admiral James H. Doyle ordered blackout conditions set on all ships. Below decks...
...down, lights blinked off for a quarter hour along the Pacific side of the Canal Zone. Power failed for three minutes at the great locks of the Panama Canal, then surged back as automatic emergency equipment went to work. It was the Canal Zone's second boa-made blackout within a fortnight...
Since a noisy to-do over the exclusion of Negroes shut the National Theatre as a playhouse 19 months ago, Washington has been the only major capital in the world without a professional legitimate theater. Last week theater-loving Washingtonians celebrated the end of the stage blackout-and the heady prospect that the next few months will find two playhouses operating in the city...
...Dorothy Hart, the two nurses at the hospital where the here finds work, inject the usual amount of spice into commonplace roles. Each manages to appear frightened when a man's hand is at her throat, and each manages to hold a kiss until the director calls for a blackout. John Hoyt, the master crook who happens to be carried into the hospital just as the hero begins his job there, acts both sick and wicked. Signe Hasso, his ex-wife, leaven no doubt that she prefers his money to his life...