Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aged figure of Abolitionist Douglass struggled out of the chair. "Agitate!" he cried. "Agitate! Agitate!" Blackout. A single spotlight cut through the darkness, focusing on the old rocking chair-now empty, still swaying back and forth. The audience rose to its feet for a thunderous ovation...
...built, new farm lands opened, and the five-year plans rolled on one after the other-all proving that a country can industrialize in a great hurry. But as in other industrial nations, the cost to Russia's ecology has been great. For years Russia maintained a news blackout about the relentless exploitation of its natural resources. When Western journalists tried to confirm infrequent reports of ecological disruption, they met only bureaucratic doubletalk about Soviet laws, decrees and decisions to safeguard nature...
...news blackout is lifting. Soviet reporters and scientists have recently been allowed to describe-and criticize-Mother Russia's sins against Mother Nature with unprecedented freedom, presumably because the subject is essentially apolitical, and environmental troubles have become too serious to hide. The picture that emerges shows that centrally controlled economic planning is no guarantee of an unspoiled environment...
Football freaks in three other playoff sites-Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and San Francisco-hit the highways in search of blackout-free telecasts. Washington Redskin rooters packed 150 rooms at the Holiday Inn in Bethesda, Md. (40 miles from the stadium). The hotel, which is equipped with an extra-high antenna to pick up Baltimore stations, offered a gridiron buffet of lox, whitefish and onion rolls ($2.25) and a post-game open bar ($3). Fans at the Sheraton Motor Inn in Fredericksburg, Va., known for such victory celebrations as nude swim-ins, this time observed the Redskins' decisive...
...Dolphins-Browns game at all was Richard Nixon, who was resting in his Key Biscayne retreat over the holiday weekend. Earlier in the week, the nation's No. 1 football fan had directed Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to ask N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle to lift the blackout on all playoff games that were sold out 48 hours in advance. Rozelle refused, explaining that easing of the TV ban could seriously reduce attendance at future games and might even turn pro football into a "studio show." Kleindienst countered by announcing that the Nixon Administration would urge the new Congress...