Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raids have been contained for the most part to the French-built nuclear energy facility just outside the city and industrial targets in the suburbs. One direct hit, in particular, on petroleum storage tanks next to a power station, caused a huge fire that turned Baghdad's blackout into a stage setting for Götterdämmerung. The minarets and distinctive egg-shaped domes of the city's mosques were silhouetted against a sky that glowed deep crimson all night long...
...Iranian side of the conflict, the mood could not have been more warlike. At the militant exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the whole country rallied enthusiastically behind the government. Huddled in the dim light of candles during a blackout, Iranians listened over their radios to the 80-year-old revolutionary leader implore them to "resist with dignity and courage" and fight until the "infidels" had been driven not only from Iran but also from Iraq. When Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat showed up on a self-appointed mediation mission, Khomeini refused even to see him. And when Cuban...
...national folk hero as the leader of the legendary Lenin Shipyard strike. Walesa began the morning with a 9 o'clock Mass at the Church of the Holy Cross, where three days earlier, regular radio broadcasts of the Roman Catholic Mass had resumed following a 41-year blackout. Later in the day, Walesa's delegation met with a group of Politburo members, including Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, the official who had negotiated the Gdansk agreement on behalf of the government. With characteristic bluntness, Walesa complained that the authorities, contrary to their promises, were denying the independent labor movement...
...tight on them, sharing the pain and expectation. Suddenly the young mother shrieks, throws back her head; there is a ripping sound and her abdomen bursts; blood spatters everywhere, pouring from her mouth as she manages to die; and a little humanoid pops up and snarls into the camera. Blackout. Music. Wild laughter and shrieks in the Orson Welles Cinema. Thunderous applause...
...tight on them, sharing the pain and expectation. Suddenly the young mother shrieks, throws back her head; there is a ripping sound and her abdomen bursts; blood spatters everywhere, pouring from her mouth as she manages to die; and a little humanoid pops up and snarls into the camera. Blackout. Music. Wild laughter and shrieks in the Orson Welles Cinema. Thunderous applause...