Word: curfew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Germans are still fighting an inconclusive campaign with hard-bitten Chetniks in the Serbian mountains. The Italians last week replaced a general in their Army of Occupation who had failed to conquer the Yugoslav guerrillas. A strict curfew suddenly clamped on Belgrade indicated that the Serbian patriots were operating even in the capital...
...soldiers have disappeared, but they have been replaced by Frauen in Uniform. All nightclubs are open and filled with Germans and their collaborationist friends. Life is very gay, and champagne flows like water-but French people (if there are any) must leave at 11:30 or stay until the curfew ends at five in the morning...
...filling-station curfew (TIME, Sept. 22, et ante), which had annoyed the Eastern Seaboard and aroused more shouts of outrage than anything Harold Ickes had done since the last time, was called off last week...
...Ickes announced that the British, doing better in the Battle of the Atlantic, would soon (by next month) return 40 of the 80 tankers they had got from the U.S. This addition to the U.S. tanker fleet, plus the savings effected by the curfew and a 10% cut in deliveries to dealers, said Mr. Ickes, ended the threat of oil shortage for the Eastern Seaboard...
When two Frenchmen slipped up to the Nazi military commander of Nantes early last week and riddled him with pistol bul lets, the Germans knew exactly what to do. They stationed military patrols around the city, imposed a 14-hour curfew. From Paris General Otto von Stülpnagel, commanding the German Army of Occupation, issued a terse communique. He offered a reward of 15,000,000 francs (to be paid by France) for the killers, promised he would execute 50 French hostages if the killers were not arrested in two days...