1.   Unfortunately, the bride-to-be died in a smallpox epidemic, which plunged the city both into mourning and quarantine.

2.   Its overstrained electricity grid regularly plunges major cities into darkness and threatens to cap economic growth.

3.   On Monday night, two more towers were struck, once again plunging the city into darkness.

4.   So those Federal Reserve rate increases -- meant to cool things off nationwide -- could plunge the city into an icy bath.

5.   The city was plunged into darkness.

6.   Over the next four days, the city was plunged into a nightmare.

7.   Helicopters fired dozens of rockets in the hour-long raid at nightfall, plunging the city into darkness.

8.   Jets began concentrated attacks in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, unleashing several air-to-surface missiles and plunging the city immediately in darkness, witnesses said.

9.   Local sources told private Studio B television at least two loud explosions were heard before the third-largest Yugoslav city was plunged into darkness.

10.   On Sunday evening, heavy anti-aircraft fire could be heard in Belgrade, and shortly afterward, the city was plunged into darkness when electric power failed.