Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...splitting of society has become so pervasive and perverse that some people are angry that they were not detained by the police. One famous actor who thinks that his politics are radical enough to warrant his confinement in an internment center goes out every night after the 11 p.m. curfew in the hope of being arrested. Thus far he has not been picked up, a fact that adds to his anger...
Through the gloom covering Poland today it is possible to catch an occasional glimpse of spirit that still glows. In one huge housing block in Warsaw, occupants who own dogs have agreed to walk their pets together-15 minutes after the 11 o'clock curfew. They stand in the courtyard chatting, some in bathrobes, defying the police to try to arrest all of them...
...most Poles were still unable to move freely outside the region in which they live, make telephone calls or receive uncensored mail. Every evening at 10:45 the streets and highways were suddenly transformed into speedways as thousands of Poles rushed toward home to beat the 11 p.m. curfew. A considerable number-5,500 according to the government, and as many as ten times that number according to other sources-did not get home at all because they were still being held at one or another of the 78 detention camps reportedly set up throughout the country...
...Jaruzelski and his Soviet backers play a very perfidious game. First came the brutal crackdown with all its atrocities: shooting at striking workers, beating people to death, detaining thousands of people in concentration camps. The West was justly indignant. Now is the time of some "relaxation" and "normalization". The curfew will probably be shortened an hour or two, people will be free to travel within their provinces or make telephone calls within their cities; in the next few weeks maybe several hundreds of detainees will be released. What I fear most is the danger that the West can be deceived...
Including last Saturday night's 4-2 loss to the University of New Hampshire at Durham, a game which several of the top players missed because of a curfew violation on a previous trip, the Eagles ECAC record stands at 4-3 (8-4 overall). Prior to the UNH game, B.C. saw holiday action in the I Love New York Tournament at Lake Placid, bowing in the opening round to Clarkson, 4-3 in overtime and then pasting Division 2 Plattsburg St., 6-2, in the consolation game...