Word: dimout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israelis lit their first candles celebrating the traditional festival of lights (Hanukkah) last week, the government decreed a national dimout. Reason: a fuel shortage that was one indirect consequence of Israel's seven-day victory over Egypt. In homes, hotels and hospitals only one 60-watt light bulb was permitted to burn in any room, and families were restricted to a maximum of 60 kw-h per month. Housewives boned up on how much power each appliance consumed (example: a washing machine uses up one kw-h in 30 minutes), and pinned up self-rationing lists in their kitchens...
Rebels rejected a loyalist plea to consider Buenos Aires an open city. The government showed its shakiness by cutting off telephone communications between Buenos Aires and the outside world and restricting press dispatches to official statements. In that shadowy dimout, a government bulletin announced that General Lucero had invited rebel leaders to the Army Ministry in Buenos Aires to negotiate a ceasefire...
...dimout became darker and dark er, Belgrade's mayor did his best to keep hope alight. When major repairs were completed at one of the power stations, he promised, the worst of the trouble would be over. Instead, last week came a final benighting announcement: all light and power in private houses throughout the entire capital will be shut off every day between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. and for two evenings weekly...
Clearest indication of the dimout is the unpublicized decision to change plans for Evita's mausoleum. At the outset, the idea was to hold a world competition for the design of a colossal monument, then build it at one of Buenos Aires' main street intersections and preserve Evita's embalmed remains within, perpetually on view. By last week, the site had been changed from downtown Buenos Aires to the grounds of the presidential residence in the Palermo section. Evita's monument has been consolidated with an old project for commemorating the descamisados. Under the latest plan...
Doubtless with the 23rd Regiment's casualties at Heartbreak Ridge in mind, General Van Fleet issued a long statement explaining-and justifying the cost of-his summer campaign of attacks while peace talks were under way. Since May 25, in what he called "the dimout war," the enemy had lost 188,000 men, he said. The summer battles had served to weaken the enemy, to improve the U.N.'s military posture, to school and season replacements, and above all, to ward off inertia...