Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buckingham Palace was lit by candles and hand torches. Millions of Londoners went to and from work beneath dimmed streetlights. Thirty crews of firemen helped rescue people who were trapped in stalled elevators. Dramatizing the nation's power shortage, one BBC newscaster had to read his bulletin by candlelight. A general synod of the Church of England also was conducted-perhaps fittingly-by candlelight, but that was not what the prelates had intended...
...Governor A.M. Malik's cabinet members, who were mostly hand-picked opportunists from minor parties. They are expected to face trial as war criminals. Their wives and other Pakistani women lived in fear, and the frequent moaning from their rooms at the Intercontinental contrasted eerily with the noisy candlelight poker and chess games of the correspondents who were not standing four-hour guard duty to keep out intruders. The hotel roof could hardly have been a better place for TV crews to grind away at air strikes. During the raids, shrapnel was occasionally fished out of the swimming pool...
...Hanscom Field, an Air Force research and development center in Bedford, on the 26th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, August 6. The action, organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, was one of two antiwar demonstrations scheduled. The Greater Boston Peace Action coalition staged a candlelight parade following a rally on the Boston Common that night. The lightly-attended rally was conveniently over just as the 12,000 people attending the Rod Stewart Summerthing Concert were pouring onto downtown streets. Still, the candlelight parade had barely 1000 participants at its height...
...powers of candlelight have long been part of Everywoman's arsenal. Beauty or not, she always looks loveliest in the warm glow thrown off by wax tapers gleaming over a banquet table or on a banquette in a quiet bistro. Largely because of this candelabracadabra, candles continued to sell at a respectable pace long after the rural-electrification program brought light bulbs into the most remote corners of the U.S. In recent months, however, Americans have gone on a candle-buying spree, spurred on by necessity, a changing national mood and by new candle shops stocked with imaginatively shaped...
...other days scarcely at all. A man of intense energy and occasional brilliance, he often worked at home, where he also liked to tend his orchids and hummingbirds or tootle his oboe and English horn. Occasionally he held executive meetings at a zoo, or in the office by candlelight. "A certain truth comes out at night that doesn't come out in the board room," he explained...