Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army curfew was imposed at 8 p.m., and during the night, gunfire rattled through the streets of Guatemala City. By 6 a.m., the army went on the radio with an announcement for Guatemala's 3,800,000 people. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 67, the cagy old soldier who had only a year to go before completing his elected six-year term of office, had been overthrown. In command of a military junta was Defense Minister Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, who was assuming control for the "good of the nation...
Normal Torpor. By week's end Iraq seemed settling down into the normal torpor of an Arab state after a coup d'état. Oil flowed uninterruptedly through the pipelines to the Mediterranean. Shops, schools, and government offices reopened. The curfew was gradually extended from 3 in the afternoon until 11 at night, and in the coffeehouses men were gossiping and playing backgammon...
Under the present Radcliffe rules, juniors and seniors must specify their destination and the time they will return, but do not have a specific curfew...
Several RGA representatives argued at the Ceder Hill Conference Feb. 5 that the absence of a curfew does away with the need to indicate a specific time of return, and claimed that girls who come in later than the time they have indicated should not be punished...
...fine for every minute a guy's late," says Auerbach. "If Russell comes in at 10:05 it costs him $1.25. I'd rather fine the big guys. Hell, anybody can fine a rookie." But Auerbach does not treat his giants like children. He rarely invokes a curfew, lets them enjoy a beer or two after the game. Whether his high-priced players are "happy" does not interest Auerbach. "It's up to them to make me happy," he snorts. "I tell them they must adjust to me. I won't adjust to them...