Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroads with dynamitings at 153 points. In Haifa harbor, where a British cruiser and four destroyers lay at anchor, police launches used for halting illegal immigrants were boarded and scuttled. At dawn six men were dead, eight wounded. Two of the dead were Jews. British authorities clamped a curfew on the whole coastal area...
Shoppes & Sodas. A shrill curfew whistle sends Val D'Or's moppets kiting home at 9 p.m. The town's Third Avenue (the main stem) has nine hotels* (including a Ritz and a Continental), sandwich shoppes and beauty salons, four furniture stores, taxis, even such accouterments of civilization as a nightclub and a stock exchange (one recent day's business: 27,000 shares, representing $50,000). Val D'Or's drug stores sell barrels of pop. Miners get ice cream sodas at the Splendid Sweets...
...from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...
...duties: 1) gearing domestic production to meet the needs of war; 2) resolving high-policy conflicts between Government agencies. He is consulted in labor and stabilization matters, can hand down edicts affecting the whole nation-e.g., immediately after the German surrender he lifted the ban on racing, the curfew, the brownout. He is the home-front czar...
...SERVICE NEWS and the Summer Chorus, all undergraduate organizations will be dormant, according to present indications. What's more, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and most other institutionalized sources of feminine companionship are out of session; and good little boys keeps away from the banks of the River Charles after curfew...