Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense that Baghdad is a city at war is most acute at night, when the blackout is strictly enforced. Glimmers of candlelight escaping through a slit in the curtains can arouse outpourings of official ire. Customers in a restaurant one evening heard an explosion overhead. Waiters nervously scurried to put out candles and lanterns. When the patrons went outside to find out what had happened, there were no planes to be seen. As the diners went back inside to resume their meal, the unanimous conclusion was that it was not an Iranian raid at all, but a sonic boom caused...
When the Harvard Corporation faced opposition to its South Africa related investments in the past five years, it almost exclusively confronted undergraduates. Students served as the gadfly conscience, driving home their conviction of the amorality of Harvard's investments by marching through Cambridge's streets by candlelight, boycotting classes, and blocking the entrances to University Hall. But this year, after having anesthetized student discontent with the rhetoric of open letters and imposing progress reports of its review of corporate activity in South Africa, the Corporation for the first time faced dissent from within--from its Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility...
...conspiracies of the U.S. and Iraq's fascist government." At Tehran University, a crowd roared its approval of anti-American resolutions while chanting "God is great!" -raising fresh fears for the hostages trapped in the middle of the tumult. In Washington, where supporters of the hostages held candlelight vigils near the Iranian embassy, dozens of Iranian students demonstrated in front of the White House and bowed toward Mecca...