Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curfew at the filling station is not curfew at the carburetor. Before 7 p.m. most drivers now said: "Fill her up," instead of the more usual: "Five gallons." When the petroleum shortage really overtakes the public, the name for it will be rationing...
Neither the War nor the Gas Curfew is something to look forward to, but for baseball fans the looming World Series is. To every fan, it was last week apparent, on Aug. 1, that the American League pennant was already in the bag. The smooth, smart, smitey New York Yankees, with a Murderers' Row comparable to that of Babe Ruth's day, had won 45 of their last 50 games, were twelve games ahead of the second-place Indians. Even jut-jawed Joe McCarthy, most modest manager in the business, admitted that nothing but a catastrophe could stop...
Aging noticeably after the German occupation and the closing of the Paris Herald office, the Sparrow nevertheless refused to budge. One evening a Nazi guard stopped him at the gate, told him curfew had long since rung. Said the Sparrow: "Where do you get that stuff?" and kept going. The guard called a Nazi officer. But the officer, too, was an "old pal"-they had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. So together he and the Sparrow toured what was left of the old "thirst emporiums...
...Amherst, and Harvard men, ferrying their Junior Prom dates home the night before last, discovered to their dismay that this traffic reform wave was in full swing. Cars piled up four deep on the road waiting for summonses. The boys were allowed to get their female passengers home before curfew, but when they reached the station house they were faced with the gloomy alternatives of raising $100 bail, cash or real estate, or spending the night in the jug. Bursar's Cards were scornfully rejected, and real estate was defined to exclude automobiles. They were not permitted to telephone...
...months there was no mention of Libyan action in the daily communiques from Cairo. Conquered Cyrenaica was settling smoothly into British rule, with Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson as the new military governor. Shops were reopening. Looting and sabotage had been stamped out by a 6:30-p.m. curfew, the watchfulness of British patrols. Civilian-clad Italian officers on parole amicably elbowed British and Anzac soldiers on the streets of Bengasi. In the strange calm General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell was obviously collecting his forces for a new drive, but in complete secrecy. Best guesses:1) that they might...