Word: dimout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political dimout in St. Laurent's life began four years later when Louis' French Canadian father, Moïse, ran for the Quebec legislature as a Liberal and was beaten. Sorely disappointed, Moïse St. Laurent advised Louis to stay out of politics...
...moderates in France and the Low Countries has looked to a flow of consumers goods from these factories to clothe and comfort their shabbily-dressed millions while at the same time the export of processed foods to England was to be balanced by this trade. To Germans the British dimout meant that the industrial rehabilitation of their country must await stimulus from the east, since Newcastle can scarcely afford coals for its own mills, much less for export...
...wartime dimout was back in Washington, Philadelphia and some other cities. New York City's millions faced the prospect of subway service curtailment and a tightening food pinch...
Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...
...Washington the Capitol dome was bright against the night sky; in New York the Statue of Liberty glowed with blue-green radiance after dark. Broadway was aglitter, and across the U.S. a thousand other Broadways came to life. The blackout, dimout, and brownout were only memories after V-E day. So were the midnight curfew, the ban on horse and dog racing (see SPORT), and the military restrictions on Bast Coast beaches...