Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pigs & Guardian Angels. Exile Levi was not permitted by the local authorities to go beyond the village limits, to stay out after curfew, to speak to the few other political prisoners. But his sharp, painter's eye missed little in the shady, shadowy life of Gagliano...
...curfew hour drawing near...
...Curfew at 10. Like their European counterparts, the U.S. hostels hug secondary roads and avoid large cities, vary from deluxe cabins to converted barns. Hikers and bikers travel light, hop from one overnight spot to the next...
...moved them to barbed-wire pens aboard British troopships. At the Henrietta Szold, the soldiers threw smoke bombs to quiet the Jews. The Jews tossed them, back. At last the screaming cargoes were embarked. Sympathizers ashore tried to aid them. About a thousand Jews from Haifa defied the British curfew, tried to crash through the barbed wire to the docks. Tommies fired; three Jews were killed, seven more wounded...
More than 20,000 British troops in maroon berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...