Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotelkeepers did their best to live up to Mr. Baedeker; so did millions of tourists who followed the famed little red books to far corners of the earth, trying to keep their eyes at once on the great sights and on the small grey type. Last week, after a blackout of more than a decade, a brand-new Baedeker (on the West German Land Schleswig-Holstein) was again in the hands of travelers. Many a king and government had since become tourists in oblivion, but Mr. Baedeker was back in business...