Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless you were typing a paper on a computer during last Friday evening's blackout, chances are you survived the incident relatively unscathed...
Lawrence R. Kilduff, associate director of Facilities Maintenance, said the blackout cost the University no more than $3000, mostly in overtime to repair workers, and that there was no lasting damage...
...blackout, which hit at 7:45 p.m., occurred because of the collapse of a worn buss, a piece of copper which carries electricity through a connection, Kilduff explained. This failure affected one of the three main lines serving the University...
When the war stopped, so did this vast torrent of images to the West. Both sides seemed complicit in the blackout: the Vietnamese victors were not especially eager for skeptical foreigners to photograph their land, and the foreigners were not all that interested anyway--since when has peace been newsworthy? Out of sight was not quite out of mind, but close. Now, however, thanks to an anniversary marking the end of a wrenching war, the pictures have begun to flow again, giving Americans another look at a country they knew so well--and knew hardly...
...agent, expelled from the U.S. in 1969 after two tours at the mission, liked to brag suggestively about little matters he had "cleared up." One Sunday at lunch on the New Jersey Palisades in late 1965, he could not stop talking about New York's great blackout. "All those shining towers," he said, gesturing at the Manhattan skyline, "they look so strong, so tall, but they're just a house of cards. A few explosions in the right places and do svidaniya (goodbye). We're only beginning to realize how vulnerable this country really is." No one commented. Even...