Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool Jerusalem dawn of a Jewish Sabbath, the British struck. Tommies seized the three-storied, pink stone headquarters of the Jewish Agency on King George Road, toted away its files. The British slapped a curfew on much of Palestine; truckloads of raiding parties in full war kit rounded up more than a thousand Jews, including the Agency leaders. Except for the armored cars and truckloads of British troops, Jerusalem was a ghost town. Jewish children had a hilarious time taunting guards into chasing them. Many a Tommy obliged. But the day passed with little violence. The official casualty list...
...term drags wearily to a close and the men of the Yard still trudge down by the Square if they tarry past the curfew hour. Only occasionally they stop to wonder whether it is a college or a nursery school that thus penalizes them for their nocturnal meanderings...
...well past curfew when a Cambridge University proctor, making his dignified, unhurried rounds in search of undergraduate truants, spotted two G.I.s emerging from a pub. The "bullers" (proctor's legmen) got set to grab their silk hats* and give chase. But the Americans held their ground. When he was close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?" One of the G.I.s nudged his companion and demanded loudly, beerily, and in approximately these words: "Say, Eddie...
...Oxford, bullers wear bowlers. In both universities, they operate as teams, "a distance runner and a sprinter." A curfew violator may make a run for it, but if a buller gets close enough to say "Good evening, sir," in a conversational tone...
...merits of Friday as opposed to Saturday night saw considerable discussion by the committee. While the inevitable 12 o'clock curfew discouraged the choice of Saturday night, nevertheless the committee thought it might be preferable for out of town girls, and that its selection would make possible a more balanced wekeend...