Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full splendor for the first time since World War II began, London's lights shone again. Like hope, their return had been long deferred through gloomy phases of semi-blackout and brownout. But to many a bemused Londoner they were a luminous confirmation of all but incredible peace. Piccadilly coruscated with almost prewar brilliance. Whitehall glittered along its entire length. Down at the Embankment, the Thames shimmered a reflected radiance. And the lights did not come on only in London...
...preposterous blackout on news of the President's movements was lifted to a merely annoying brownout. Early this week the White House announced that President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes had left Newport News by ship for the Big Three meeting in Potsdam. The news that the President was on his way over the now-pacific Atlantic was cautiously given out two days after he had sailed. (It was announced in Washington that if any flying were to be done, the President and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes would fly in separate planes-so as not to hand...
...Gone is the blackout. Gone are the curfews. Gone are the sleepless nights spent in cellars. The air is free. The sun is warm and bright. The people of the land are free people...
...None of the deaths had been attributed to bombs, shells or bullets (the first resulted from a fall in an Italian blackout...
...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...