Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making any declarations against the U.N."; 2) immediately broke his promise by threatening "a scorched-earth policy" in Kolwezi (see WORLD BUSINESS) ; 3) was clapped under house arrest by infuriated U.N. officials "to restrain him from further irresponsible acts"; and 4) got his house arrest commuted to a nighttime curfew by leading the U.N. troops to the Rhodesian border. Then, having baffled everybody, he vanished once more from the capital...
...tough -physically tough and mentally tough." He chased grandstand kibitzers off the training field, declared the rowdier Green Bay taverns off-limits, slapped $25 fines on players who showed up as little as one minute late for practice, $50 fines on those who broke his 11 p.m. training-camp curfew. He ordered injured Packers to run in practice ("You're preparing yourselves mentally"), and slackers found themselves heading out of town on the evening train. "Don't cross me," Lombardi warned Quarterback Bart Starr. "If you cross me a second time, you're gone." Self-pity provoked...
...student government at Cornell has wide discretionary power. In past year it has abolished compulsory student ROTC, senior women's curfew, and instituted an honor code...
Rica was luckier; she drew a twelve-hour curfew, thus can go out during the day. Lest they violate the law by talking to "political undesirables," the Hodgsons and several other couples will have to get special dispensations from Vorster to 'communicate with each other...
...dispensation was granted to the children of the married victims, who may have guests "provided that the house-arrested parents do not mix with these visitors." Vorster also promised those under 24-hour curfew that he would reduce it to twelve if they found jobs, but he forbade their leaving home to look for work. His object seems to be to make their lives so miserable they would want to quit the country. Said he: "I'll help them go." But the detained 13, figuring that their very presence was a rebuke to South Africa, stood fast...