Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion whispers that the stringent 8:30 o'clock curfew imposed upon the Navy men in the Yard caused the damsels to while away all their time on cold, stone steps, and eventually to begin their disillusioned trek homeward...
Australian bluenoses were quick to join the Lord Mayor in a mighty anti-necking crusade, urging everything from a girls' curfew to folk games as "a healthy, happy alternative." More sympathetic U.S. correspondents diagnosed the need as fewer, not more, restrictions. Melbourne takes in its sidewalks after 8 p.m. Only a handful of one-armed eating joints stay open. No drinks are sold. There is no place to spend the evening with a girl in the way of U.S. youth. Sundays are even worse. One vaudeville house and one movie, after soldier protests, were allowed to keep running...
...veterans assembled to get the play in shape. Dramatic careers being strictly extra curricular in Hawaii, the cast includes several university professors, a protege of Martha Graham, and even a couple of censors. . . . Nightly rehearsals were held in a windowless prop room, and because of the strict blackout and curfew orders, special passes had to be issued to get the actors through a line of itchy-fingered sentries each night...
...Zagreb, capital of "independent" Croatia, curfew rings at 11. A fortnight ago, intrigued by the announcement that curfew would not ring that night until 12, the good folk of Zagreb gathered inquisitively in the main square. Shortly after 11, Foreign Minister Mladen Lorkovich appeared, thundered that the puppet government of Ante Pavelich had decided to declare...
...Government started seizures by grabbing six leading German firms, including Zeiss (opticals) and Bayer (drugs). In Rio de Janeiro State it slapped a 9 p.m. curfew on Axis nationals, forbade them to travel elsewhere without salve-conducto, rounded up a few more potential troublemakers...