blackout

And so as Friday dawned, the Great CBS Blackout of 2013 entered its eighth day.

The Great Blackout of 2011 gridlocked traffic, closed schools and canceled flights.

Well, he certainly wasn't much of a perceptive, or he would have been able to handle the Blackout himself.

My Blackout victim was reaching out, trying to find something he could use to raise himself to his feet.

I picked her up in my arms and carried her to the same sawdust-strewn private dining room where I'd given Barney the Blackout.

A Blackout is quite effective—it's hard to hit what you can't see.

But Barney, the stick-man who'd felt my Blackout, caught on a lot quicker.