Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep youngsters under 15 off the streets, Quebec City imposed a 9 p.m. curfew, signalled with one long toot on airraid sirens (actual raids will be announced by higher-pitched wails...
...chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will be higher than yours. You may date a Pine Manor or Wellesley girl, but she has to catch a train at 2345; therefore you lose the last and most important fifteen minutes before the curfew rings. In the latter case you will catch the next-to-last subway back to Harvard Square, and that is contrary to the rules of the game...
...made a record by passing $1,000,000-and the dog tracks do as much as $100,000 apiece at night. . . . Real estate is changing hands at million-dollar tunes. . . . The beaches are deep in vacation humanity, the nightclubs are roaring in spite of a midnight curfew on drinks,* and Midas has moved back to Miami...
...Nazis' 6 p.m. curfew on Rome forced Pope Pius XII to omit his customary midnight Mass, substitute a private Mass...
...helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...