Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, food rationing has continued, clothing rations are reduced, and "the only relaxations from full wartime austerity have been the end of the blackout and the return of the (very small) basic petrol ration...
Then Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin hulked to his feet. Said he: "I wish there were similar parliaments . . . and free and unfettered discussion of this problem in other countries in Europe. . . . There are two kinds of hunger in Europe today. One is physical. . . . But I sometimes think that the awful blackout over Europe is creating a great spiritual hunger...
...helped bring the Czechs and the Slovaks out of Habsburg domination, transform the country into Central Europe's prosperous bastion of democracy. He had not despaired when the Nazi blackout descended on his 10,000,000 Slav countrymen. Now he was helping them turn on the lights again. But they were different lights, and what was emerging into view was not yet clear...
Nothing could have been farther from the fact. The urgency of war had indeed hastened the achievement. But the explosive release of atomic energy was clearly foreshadowed by the ferment of atomic physics in 1940, before the security blackout was clamped down. The experiments popping five years ago all over the world (including Japan) were based on a number of fundamental discoveries in the past half-century...
Behind the blackout curtains, physicists got their work orders. A few, horrified by what was planned, refused the summons. But most went to work, knowing that discovery could not be stopped, that the U.S. and its scientific allies must make it first. Many hoped that they would fail and that their failure would prove forever irrevocable...