Word: curfew
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...such a move would be no solution at all, for, although the Union theoretically closes upwards of half an hour before its sister dining halls at both lunch and dinner, the announced early closing hour seems to be but a myth, since the doors remain open long after the curfew...
...minutes everyone in the area was rounded up for questioning. The curfew was on again, and the Jews of Jerusalem resumed paying the bill of terrorism committed by a small group, while the guilty men got away. Ben Hecht had said that every act of terror gave him and his extremist associates "a little holiday in their hearts." It is doubtful if Middleton had heard that Hecht had said that, or that he would have understood...
Many of Changchun's formerly handsome houses were stripped. Russian and Chinese looters, after the Jap surrender, had sometimes taken away even the roofs. The curfew kept citizens indoors from 8 at night to 5 in the morning. Those refusing to be searched by sentries were liable to be shot on the spot. All able-bodied men were subject to call for digging trenches...
Pigs & Guardian Angels. Exile Levi was not permitted by the local authorities to go beyond the village limits, to stay out after curfew, to speak to the few other political prisoners. But his sharp, painter's eye missed little in the shady, shadowy life of Gagliano...
...curfew hour drawing near...