Word: curfew
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...girls, who live both in Yard dorms and in several Houses, must be in by either midnight or 1 a.m., depending on the dorm. If they want to be out later, they must ask permission from the proctor and then, since the door is locked at the curfew time and the girls are not given keys, they must report to the central message station and ask a watchman to let them into their dorm...
...Adelphi University, Columbia and Radcliffe. She tutored at Harvard, taught English for 14 years at the University of Rochester, went to Douglass to succeed Mary Bunting when Mrs. Bunting left in 1960 to be president of Radcliffe. At Douglass, Miss Adams has been a popular leader: she liberalized curfew hours, fended off attack by war veterans on a satirical poem in the campus magazine, told spooky stories to the girls on Halloween. She plainly admires firm administration but knows that the job consists of "making possible the really important activity of the college, the educational...
...swearing-in ceremony. Nervous guards fired into one group, killing three students. That brought on a second mob scene, with 100,000 students-led by yellow-shirted members of the Indonesian Student Action Command (KAMI)-lining the five-mile funeral route. Sukarno retaliated by outlawing KAMI, declaring a curfew, and forbidding groups of five or more to meet in Djakarta. With that, he retreated behind machine guns to Merdeka Palace to await developments...
...Delicate Matter. Ky very quickly began to learn the limits of power in Saigonese politics. Though hardly known for quiet nights at home himself, he tried to slap a curfew on Saigon's teeming bars and brothels, only to back down-mainly because in a tense war capital, revelry is almost an essential. But he also produced some welcome surprises. Acknowledging the obvious, he declared war on North Viet Nam. Then, with the nation legally at war, he doubled army pay (from $33 to $66 a month for a private), cut in half top civilian government salaries, including...
...with what is known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-ordering up to half a dozen beers a minute before the "beeroff" bell, gulping them down in the 15 minutes before the barmaids had to collect all glasses. Professional teetotalers kept the 6 o'clock curfew alive in Melbourne for 50 years, but last week it finally died. Acting on the advice of a royal commission, the state parliament pushed back the normal closing time four hours-so that Melbournians could stretch their drinking till a more civilized 10 o'clock...