Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim insistence on war priority, his sometimes arbitrary ways of getting it, gave some civilian officials, and some of his Army colleagues, a feeling that he had forgotten that the U.S., even in war, is a democracy. His critics even credited him, rather than Byrnes, with the ineffective curfew (he denied responsibility for the curfew, but insisted that it was right "in principle...
...Nice there are but three taboos: no swimming (the Germans broke the sewer conduits running into the sea); 2) no civilian guests above the first floor; 3) no visits to Monte Carlo. The only rule: curfew...
...angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
Wrinkling his emotional nose, Columnist Samuel Grafton wrote: "There isn't any meat; that's war. There isn't any curfew; that's peace. The price of steel scrap is going down; that's peace. Try and get sugar; that...
...bright against the night sky; in New York the Statue of Liberty glowed with blue-green radiance after dark. Broadway was aglitter, and across the U.S. a thousand other Broadways came to life. The blackout, dimout, and brownout were only memories after V-E day. So were the midnight curfew, the ban on horse and dog racing (see SPORT), and the military restrictions on Bast Coast beaches...