Word: dimout
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...theory Cairo is blacked out from dusk to dawn. Actually there exists something between a dimout and peacetime illumination. From about half the buildings lights gleam through the large open windows. Street lamps have been extinguished, but cars have bright blue head lamps. There is little fear of air raids. The so-called warnings are pathetic horn toolings. The other day at high noon the British and American pedestrians completely ignored them...
...there in the water on a certain June night cannot be told. But the people of a small New England town (pop. less than 4,000) can guess. About 11 p.m., when the fog cleared and the stars came out, Frank Aresta, a policeman (by day, a grocer) on dimout duty, saw a flash followed by low, rolling thunder, then another and another. Said he to Carpenter James Thomas: "Storm, hell-that's shootin'." He telephoned the Coast Guard station. Soon a plane roared...
...bathing as usual on our beaches, unhampered by oil. No bodies have washed ashore. No lights are extinguished in beach houses (occupants are merely required to lower shades on windows facing the ocean), and cars do not extinguish lights (merely dim them) when driving oceanward. Vacationists are finding the dimout a unique experience, which most of them enjoy...
Last week the greatly grumbled-at East and West Coast dimout was making at least a few people happy. Things were so dark in Manhattan that young couples didn't have to go to the movies any more to do their necking-doorways on Fifth Avenue were dark enough...
When Santa Monica, Calif, officials told an amusement-park operator to dim his lights, he was unperturbed. Said he: "We'll have dimout rides now and I believe the young folks will like that." This was no news to Coney Island, for the past month dimmed beyond recognition. "Coney Island," said a cop, "is just one big tunnel of love...