Word: curfew
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...Sing Sing, Warden William E. Snyder lifted the prison's 10:30 radio curfew to let convicts follow the returns. Among the listeners: five men in the death house...
Shots at Shadows. The Russians imposed a curfew on Bucharest and a vigorous blackout. After 9 o'clock nobody was allowed on the streets. Russian patrols roamed the city all night long. They were not used to peaceful cities ; they only knew ruined cities in which every shadow might be an enemy. They shot at shadows, even at one another...
...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...
...Germans openly admitted the gravity of the uprising. They proclaimed a state of siege and dire punishment if armed revolt persisted. Theaters and cafes were closed, a curfew clamped on from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Parisians were ordered to stay away from their windows at all times, to leave doors open at night (for easy search). Gatherings of more than three persons were verboten...
...seething Copenhagen, Danes with rifles and machine guns ignored the rigid curfew, fought Germans armed with tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then...