Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner did the light of publicity shine than it was shut off again by Democratic Territorial Senator John Duarte, chairman of the watchdog Accounts Committee, who ordered a blackout on senate equipment inventories. Cried Republican Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama, a candidate for the U.S. House: "I didn't even get a pen. Mine was stolen." Said Democratic Senator Sakai Takahashi: "Somebody else grabbed my desk set." Said Senator Oren E. Long, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate: "Darn it all, my gavel was stolen...
Last week Publisher Moore admitted that he had invoked the Blackout. Black is a "controversial figure," said Moore, in explanation, and was "seeking publicity." To charges that the ban was his doing, Cannon snapped: "This all comes from the same place-from the biggest liar in North Carolina." But on the streets that Cannon owns, everyone knew that the boss had penciled out the man who dared to oppose...
...never touch me again!" cries the red-haired Saskatchewan farm wife (Susan Hayward) at her rednecked husband (Stephen Boyd), who has just whopped her one in the face. She slams the bedroom door and locks it. Bellowing like a mad bull, he busts the door down and-blackout. Several scenes later, Susan announces bitterly that she is pregnant. As the four-column ads explain it: "She hated the child whose life stirred within her because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose it, and one night in a storm she stumbles...
...pics become available for his use 21 days after they close their Boston run. The extra-price stuff (like "80 Days" or "Gigi") does not hit the square until after a subsequent regular-price Boston run. Then, after the usual 21-days blackout, it slithers into the U.T., much to the distress of those who have seen it in Boston for more cash...
...Playing high loud notes for more than a few seconds on the trumpet may cause dizziness or blackout...