Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after the full story of the attack finally got out, the foreign correspondents in Hong Kong filed a strong protest against the news blackout. The crown colony government replied with an official triple negative: "The government is not prepared to deny that relations with the press cannot be improved...
...bright. About midnight, the phone rang. It was a crony saying that the city's lights had gone out. As he spoke, the lights dimmed in our house, then went out. The night was pitch black. It was Guatemala's first apagoÓn (blackout). Said my friend: 'Perhaps the thing we were talking about has begun...
...outcome before you begin," "A counterfeit's sure to be exposed to light"-although they are dressed in brocade rather than homespun. The fables he borrowed from Aesop in La Fontaine's hands became tart and graceful satires on society, with neat plots and sharp blackout punch lines...
...years, Yale's undergraduate Daily News decided not to print the names of the 90 juniors tapped for membership by the six top-prestige campus secret societies last week. The radio station, WYBC, also kept mum. Explained News Chairman Roger L. Stone, himself a junior: the news blackout was motivated by a "reorientation in values and a hope for lessening the prestige factor on campus...
When Chicago faced a blackout of the hearings after NBC and Tribune station WGN-TV dropped the show, Marshall Field Jr.'s Sun-Times stepped in, guaranteed "several thousand dollars a day" to help the local ABC outlet keep the show...