Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberal chieftain, whose assassination had touched off Bogotá's insurrection. Later, he wired: "Since the shooting ended, life has settled down to trying to cover the Pan American Conference, which is five miles away, get stories written, and still be in the hotel before the 7 p.m. curfew. If you are out after that, you risk being shot first and identified later...
Mukden faced immediate tactical decisions. Nationalist generals gathered for a defense conference with sick Manchuria Commander Chen Cheng (stomach ulcers). To discourage looting by the hungry and desperate among Mukden's half million inhabitants, authorities installed a nightly twelve-hour curfew...
...such a move would be no solution at all, for, although the Union theoretically closes upwards of half an hour before its sister dining halls at both lunch and dinner, the announced early closing hour seems to be but a myth, since the doors remain open long after the curfew...
...minutes everyone in the area was rounded up for questioning. The curfew was on again, and the Jews of Jerusalem resumed paying the bill of terrorism committed by a small group, while the guilty men got away. Ben Hecht had said that every act of terror gave him and his extremist associates "a little holiday in their hearts." It is doubtful if Middleton had heard that Hecht had said that, or that he would have understood...
Many of Changchun's formerly handsome houses were stripped. Russian and Chinese looters, after the Jap surrender, had sometimes taken away even the roofs. The curfew kept citizens indoors from 8 at night to 5 in the morning. Those refusing to be searched by sentries were liable to be shot on the spot. All able-bodied men were subject to call for digging trenches...