Word: curfew
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...third consecutive night since Mayor White imposed a 10 p.m. curfew on the Boston Common, large numbers of police were called in last night to disperse crowds numbering in the thousands...
Unlike the previous night's incidents, however, no disturbance preceded the police action and very few people actually violated the curfew. The major part of the crowd filled the streets and sidewalks adjacent to the Common near the Charles Street entrance, and did not attempt to enter the Common...
...night, Saigon turns into a honeycomb of private prison cells, the result of a dreary curfew; people withdraw into their houses, or hovels, in nervous anticipation of the next attack. The lights often dim and fade out, air conditioners collapse with a rattling whisper, and the streets outside lie dark and silent. Hundreds of wealthy South Vietnamese have forsaken the city for the seaside resort of Vung Tau. The Japanese government has ordered all its citizens who are not indispensable to leave the country. Many American civilians have taken to spending their nights at the heavily guarded, although frequently rocketed...
...limits on white immigration, and fiery attacks on the white United Bermudians. Last month, pre-election tensions and some bitter P.L.P. speeches had set off an ugly race riot in downtown Hamilton. It caused $1,000,000 in damage and forced the British Governor, Lord Martonmere, to impose a curfew and declare a state of emergency. That, clearly, was not the image most Bermudians had of themselves or wanted for their island, whose principal industry is tourism for contented tourists-and they said so at the polls...
Over the next two days, rioting and looting spread over a ten-block area of Hamilton, causing $1,000,000 in damage and leaving seventeen persons injured. Bermuda's British Governor, Lord Martonmere, declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and asked for-and received-365 additional troops from Britain. All seemed quiet again by last week, but, like the scent of hibiscus, tension hung heavy in Bermuda's balmy...