Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censorship betrayed a certain nervousness by establishing a "cable curfew" barring the transmission of any military news between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. (bombing hours...
...open as the Uniform Theatre is the Garrick on Charing Cross Road, which will admit the boy or girl friend of all war workers. Encouraging theatre attendance in Brighton and Ports mouth is a rule: those who have ticket stubs for cinema or theatre are exempt from the curfew...
...promises and threats, were suddenly commanded last week to partake of the fruits of victory. Adolf Hitler, back from the wars for a short vacation at his Alpine snuggery, rescinded his ban on dancing and decreed that his countrymen could dance on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 7 p.m. and curfew. He also granted them permission to tune in on Nazi-occupied Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and France, but still forbade them under pain of beheading to listen to Denmark, which, at least theoretically, is not "subject to German sovereignty...
...Again. That night the French peace delegates were driven 52 miles southwest to Paris, through streets that were deserted after the 9 o'clock curfew, to a hotel where they slept fitfully. Next morning they returned to their tent in the forest clearing. General Keitel turned over the dining car to them, where, with five secretaries, they went over the terms article by article. Article by article they discussed them with Bordeaux from the tent. Article by article they tried to get concessions from General Keitel, who was courteous but firm. Late in the afternoon of the second...
Austrian and German refugees, hitherto permitted their freedom, were rounded up and interned just in case some of them might turn out to be quislers. Outside London, curfew for all aliens, friendly or not, rang at 8 p.m. Motorized troops and police roved everywhere, stopping cars and examining credentials...