Word: curfew
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...Chicago neighborhood. Ethel Alesia was late cleaning up the dinner dishes. As she moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on the front porch-her brother had promised faithfully to be home by 10:30, a good half-hour before the 11 p.m. curfew of his prison parole. For an instant she thought she heard the steps. Then, unmistakably, she heard another sound she had also been half-listening for: the harsh roar of shotgun fire. She rushed to the front porch, found two men twitching in a gumbo of blood...
...libel suit brought by Jake the Barber. By coincidence, Factor and Tubbo Gilbert, both grown rich and living in California, were stopping in Chicago on the same night. After two beers, Touhy left with Miller in plenty of time to be in his sister's flat by curfew. The two killers were waiting for them in the shadow of a nearby clump of evergreens. As Touhy and Miller went up the steps of Ethel Alesia's porch, the gunmen stepped to the walk behind them, fired low with six blasts of 12-gauge, 00 buckshot pellets...
When she has a formal date, the Sarah Lawrence girl will typically dress chicly and drive to New York with her escort to see a show, stop in somewhere afterward, and return in plenty of time for her 2 a.m. curfew (Weekday curfews are 1:30). There is also a great exodus to Princeton, Yale, or home on weekends, leaving the campus quiet and lonely...
Supplies come in by night aboard small planes flying out of southern Florida. The Castro government last week decreed a 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew on light plane flights, following up an official protest in Washington over the use of Florida fields by the anti-Castro rebels. ("So Castro thinks the flights can be stopped," retorted a U.S. border patrolman in Miami. "When he was fighting Batista, he bragged that 75% of his own arms shipments got through...
...five years of long, lonely hours patrolling Vatican corridors; only a lucky few draw outdoor posts. Fraternization with civilians is forbidden. The guards worship in their own chapel in Vatican City, have their own canteen, even their own cemetery. Pay is low, and there is a 10 p.m. curfew in summer, 9 p.m. in winter...