Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come out." It was the Black personality in possession of Eve White's body who had bought those expensive clothes. Eve Black was fully conscious of what Eve White was doing all the time, but Eve White knew nothing of Eve Black-until she came out of a blackout to find her closet full of low-cut dresses, or woke up with a hangover that Eve Black had incurred...
Died. Cecil Elaine Highland, 80, wattled, egg-bald tyrant of Clarksburg, W. Va., who controlled the town for years through his morning Exponent and evening Telegram by imposing a complete news blackout on people, issues and organizations he did not like (TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news...
Israel went under its first country-wide blackout since the armistice of eight years ago, but there was no air raid alert. An Israeli spokesman said that three Russian-built Egyptian jets were downed, while the Egyptians claimed seven Israeli aircraft...
...news conference, a spokesman for the department reported a new blackout of all telephone and telegraph contact with the American Legation in the revolt-torn capital of Budapest...
...Since the word "boycott" was coined after Captain Boycott's tyranny, why can't the word "randolph" be interpolated in the English language meaning a memory blank or a "blackout," as Mr. Randolph Churchill so suavely put it [at the end of his flop on the $64,000 Question] ? Perhaps students will now "randolph" their exams...