Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...target over the southern, or panhandle, part of North Viet Nam. U.S. pilots speculated that the F-l 11, which sweeps in at treetop level on bombing runs, may have run into a hill or mountain. Not surprisingly, the Air Force slapped on a tight security blackout. Since the plane is crammed with the very latest navigational and other electronic gear, the U.S. did not want to let the enemy know whether it fell over the North or in Communist-held portions of Laos. The Pentagon confirmed that the second F-l 11 crashed in Thailand after what...
...glad to see your Education article "Walkout in Florida [March 1]." Your publication is one of the few to break through the news blackout. I have just resigned my position as second-grade teacher in one of the newest schools in Escambia County. Children are stuffed into classrooms, sit in broken chairs, taught on the stage in the "cafetorium," have speech classes in a closet between a Coke machine and the teachers' mailboxes, eat a 15-minute lunch in silence. Our affluent society is cheating children. It is time to stop...
...victims. For seven weeks, San Francisco's two major daily newspapers were shut down by a strike. There was a good chance that the dispute would be settled this week. Meanwhile, TV had undertaken a successful rescue program that promises to become a minor trend. During the newspaper blackout, KQED's public TV channel went on the air with a nightly one-hour Newspaper of the Air. And it was just that: a "city room" peopled with staffers from the striking papers who made up their feature and news "pages" before the camera...
...that he is a swinger, Stan is, in self-dismayed fact, a thirtyish virgin. Given to incessant self-analysis and self-recrimination, Sylvia has strained the juices of life into psychologically labeled jars. The pair's mating dance is jittery and erratic but unfalteringly human. One wondrously comic blackout sequence in which Stan is baffled by bra hooks, stuck zippers and the location of a misplaced contraceptive could serve as a catalogue of the frustrating minutiae that can reduce seduction to helpless farce...
...furniture; in Prince Erie, the finite playing area itself cramps Fisk, and he becomes undisciplined energy trying, I suspect, to break the walls down, also Jersey City, anything that threatens to contain him. "Jersey City is our old bath water," bellows Fisk, "and we don't need it anymore." Blackout...