Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was nothing so terrifying about the newest pill: Jimmy Byrnes's midnight curfew on bars, nightclubs, theaters, and other places of entertainment. In most U.S. cities bars close by 1 a.m. and most U.S. citizens go to bed betimes, anyhow. Even on those it most directly affected-nightclub owners, entertainers and swing-shift workers-the curfew would work no insurmountable hardships. But many a U.S. citizen asked suspiciously which home-front ailment the curfew was designed to cure...
Scores of demonstrators flattened against the pavement, some with wounds, some for safety. The fighting continued for hours. At least 20 demonstrators were killed, 150 persons, including a few police, injured. By nightfall Monday British troops had declared martial law, imposed a curfew, disarmed 800 guerrillas...
...Sing Sing, Warden William E. Snyder lifted the prison's 10:30 radio curfew to let convicts follow the returns. Among the listeners: five men in the death house...
Shots at Shadows. The Russians imposed a curfew on Bucharest and a vigorous blackout. After 9 o'clock nobody was allowed on the streets. Russian patrols roamed the city all night long. They were not used to peaceful cities ; they only knew ruined cities in which every shadow might be an enemy. They shot at shadows, even at one another...
...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...