Word: curfew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...constitution, banned strikes and all public gatherings, imposed censorship on the press, closed schools, banks and stores, did away with the need for search warrants and set up special military courts to try violators. Troops patrolled the streets with orders to shoot anyone who broke the dusk-to-dawn curfew. The seizure was such a model of military precision that no one had time to organize a protest. Despite some rumors of shooting in Athens and Salonica, the coup was virtually bloodless...
...even refused to intervene after an opposition member of the National Assembly, carried away by an emotional debate, poured a can of excrement over the heads of Park's Cabinet ministers. But Park's tolerance does have its limits. His government maintains a midnight-to-4-a.m. curfew over most of the country, and has enacted a tough anti-Communist law that gives the security police and the courts wide leeway in dealing with real or imagined subversives. One young writer who published a blistering allegory of American influence in Korea, called The Dung Hill, is being tried...
...shocks. People need shocks to carry them on shocks on a glorious level." Last week the Charles Lloyd Quartet had shocks aplenty for the rockers at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco's hangar-sized discotheque. Though modern jazz normally goes over with teen agers like a 9 p.m. curfew, Lloyd's passionate attack held them spellbound. Wrapping his gangling frame around his tenor saxophone, he explored the full range of the instrument, ricocheting be tween hoarse blats and urgent bleats, pouring out great churning whirlpools of sound. Dipping and bobbing as he played, he flew off on melodic tangents...
Death Throes. First, Los Angeles County police went after the "juvies" (minors under 18), began carting them off by the busload last summer for violating a 10 p.m. curfew dating back to 1939. As arrests increased 300%, grumbles soon grew to rumbles. Charging police brutality, the Strippies last month protested with two consecutive weekends of wild rioting; mobs of youths, at times numbering as many as 2,000, smashed store windows, tried to burn buses, and pelted police with rocks and bottles, bringing on 200 arrests. The Los Angeles County board of supervisors decided to get tougher, last week unanimously...
...Windsor Castle, the bells rang in the curfew tower, but otherwise it wasn't a very royal birthday party. Turning 18, Britain's Prince Charles simply had coffee and buns with eight friends at Scotland's Gordonstoun School, where he is cramming for his university entrance exams. Had he wanted a real birthday blowout, the lad could well have afforded it. His income from inherited properties has now been raised to $84,000 per annum. Other advantages of his official coming of age: he replaces his father as regent-designate, would directly assume his mother...