Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toronto coach Freddy Wares, his job on the line, establishes a 9 p.m. curfew on the night before the big game, but Duke breaks it to keep a rendezvous with Sherri. He is subsequently caught by Wares, who immediately suspends him, and banishes her to the open road. Moments later, she is killed in a flaming auto wreck, and Billy is crushed. He wanders aimlessly around the Toronto streets, his mind a kaleidoscope of romantic flashbacks. Sherri is gone. But the game lives on, and the next night, with Toronto trailing by two goals late in the game. Duke strides...
...constitution had been "withdrawn." Before flying to the neighboring Ivory Coast, Busia declared in London that the Ghanaian people would resist "this selfish and senseless coup and overthrow it." His statement was mostly wishful thinking. Accra was so quiet that the junta did not even bother to impose a curfew...
Dominica Morelli, 17, had been sexually assaulted by one of her alcoholic mother's four husbands. Moved to a foster home, she ran away and returned to her mother. Placed under a curfew, she made a trip without her mother's permission and was promptly charged with violating probation...
Harvard compensated for the loss of Billy Corkery, Larry Desmond, Dave Hynes, Harry Reynolds, Jay Riicy, Andy Burns, Doug Elliott and Mark Noonan--all benched for breaking curfew after the Army game--by forechecking extremely well and outscoring the Eagles 4-1 in the last two periods...
...rioting. Toward dawn, Allende decreed a state of emergency, placing under army control the entire province of Santiago, which encompasses more than a third of Chile's 9,000,0.00 people. General Augusto Pinochet, the local garrison commander, imposed press censorship and a 1 a.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. "I hope the army does not have to come out," he warned, "because if they do it will be to kill...