Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...community, was unmasked as nine pint-sized hoodlums (aged nine to 14). In court they told Judge Walter Phelan that their juvenile reign of terror had been inspired by ABC's radio program the Green Hornet. The judge recommended spankings for each culprit and ordered a 5:30 curfew, with radios off while the Green Hornet...
Quiet, Please. In Monrovia, Calif., the city council silenced the 9 p.m. curfew whistle after some 20 years, explained that too many residents complained that it woke them...
...Game called for curfew...
Nanking lies quiet and hushed in the soft spring evenings. In the cool, cavernous railroad station, less than three months ago jammed with shouting soldiers and wailing refugees, a lone coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew hour), the streets are deserted save for rifle-toting municipal gendarmes in shabby black uniforms and yellow armbands, who shamble along preceded by a youngster holding a lemon-colored paper lantern...
Pengpu's narrow, cobbled streets bustled in the early darkness with shoving soldiers and civilians. At a quarter to 7 gongs rang, warning of curfew. Cries of "hurry, hurry home" sounded on the streets. Shopkeepers hastily boarded up their stalls. By 7 the streets were deserted and quiet save for military patrols with their rough bayonet-pointed challenge to late passersby: "Ni shut...