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Word: curfew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France--many theaters flourished, and Les Enfants du Paradis was being filmed. Camus and the like were writing for the newspapers and carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis could never conquer, and it continued despite the imposition of censorship and curfew--even though if one missed the last metro, the veneer of normal life would vanish and one could be arrested at random on the street...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Truffaut's Diffidence | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...bearded, middle-aged man, a visitor to San Salvador, was on his way back to his lodgings when he realized it was 7 p.m., the hour of the strict, dusk-to-dawn curfew. Caught out of doors, he was liable to be shot on sight as a guerrilla. Frantically he began knocking at the houses on Calle Poniente, pleading for shelter. No doors were opened. Instead, a frightened resident telephoned the police to report a suspicious character making a commotion. As the bearded stranger approached the door of No. 2031, he died in a fusillade of police bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Tactical Retreat | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...victim was Primo Gerardo Caceres, 45, the former mayor of a provincial town. He was one of at least 46 people who have been killed by police after hours since the curfew was imposed in mid-January in an attempt to control El Salvador's guerrilla war. Most of the victims, according to the Human Rights Commission in San Salvador, were not dangerous insurgents but innocent civilians: some mentally retarded, aimless drunks, a milkman in Santa Ana who started his morning rounds too early. Nevertheless, military and security forces are enthusiastic about being able to deny the hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Tactical Retreat | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...there appeared to be few classical music lovers in San Salvador's barrios. The guerrilla attacks were beaten off by withering rifle fire and grenade attacks by the army. The government declared martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Less than 24 hours after the start of the offensive, Junta President José Napoleón Duarte called a press conference to deride the leftist efforts as "an absolute failure." Stores and businesses opened as usual the next day, and workers generally stayed on their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador,Killing That Will Not Stop: Killing That Will Not Stop | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...night before New Year's Eve, Georgia Head Coach Vince Dooley decided to enforce an early curfew on himself. Weary from the whirl of practices, press conferences and official functions surrounding the Sugar Bowl showdown between his No. 1-ranked Bulldogs and Notre Dame, Dooley passed up a party honoring the teams and went to bed at 9 p.m. It was perhaps his wisest coaching decision of the year. "If I'd gone to the party, I would never have slept again," he asserted. The reason: while Dooley snoozed, Sugar Bowl officials staged a disco contest between Notre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vince Dooley's 17-Year Itch | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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