Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desecrate those sacred precincts. In two days' operations nine Arabs were killed, no British. Arresting all men whose shoulders showed the bruises of rifle butts, Tommies put 300 suspects in a concentration camp on the site of King Herod's ancient citadel. Although a 24-hour curfew prevailed, the British command showed its regard for Moslem religious feelings by agreeing to a request of the Moslem Supreme Council to permit 40 Arabs to attend the Friday noon prayers at the Mosque of Omar so that those services, held every Friday for centuries, would not be interrupted. When...
Twelve-hour curfew was enforced in Jerusalem. Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The British battle-cruiser Repulse steamed into Haifa Harbor, landed marines. Eleven air squadrons stood by for bombing work. From Egypt arrived 1,600 British soldiers. With violence continuing, the British ordered the nth Hussars, an armored-car regiment, from Egypt to reinforce the 10,000 soldiers, police and constabulary...
...conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
...curfew tolled the knell of parting night...
...matters more pleasant than the football match. Soon into my party clothes and with F . . . to dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream of operas and sports, of Gilbert and rows of men in blue coats...