Word: curfew
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...southeastern France struck their hardest blows. They raided Grenoble, wrecked the rail junction at Bellegarde. In Marseilles, great port on the alerted, invasion-jittery Mediterranean, the Germans used tanks to quell demonstrators. The Nazis denied reports that Paris was seething. The capital, they said, was so calm that its curfew had been extended from midnight to 1 a.m. But they spoke of arresting hundreds of "Communists" and two shopkeepers who were ready to sell British flags for the day of liberation. Everywhere resistance groups, now designated by the Algiers Government as the French Forces of the Interior, listened...
Throughout the long, tense afternoon the hymns and orisons followed one another in unbroken march. The tired voice of Cardinal Ascalesi led the prayers. But no miracle occurred. At half past nine the Cardinal announced that because of army curfew regulations the vigil would have to be postponed. Departing, the people wept...
...keep youngsters under 15 off the streets, Quebec City imposed a 9 p.m. curfew, signalled with one long toot on airraid sirens (actual raids will be announced by higher-pitched wails...
Palestine's peaceable Jewish majority promptly condemned the outrages, talked of vigilante drives against the outlaws. Palestine's British High Commissioner promptly took action: for Tel Aviv and the Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa, a twelve-hour daily curfew beginning at 5 p.m.; for sabotage and terror, the death penalty. Palestine, home of half a million Jews and a million Arabs, already one of the world's most thoroughly policed lands, now felt more heavily than ever the tread of law & order...
...chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will be higher than yours. You may date a Pine Manor or Wellesley girl, but she has to catch a train at 2345; therefore you lose the last and most important fifteen minutes before the curfew rings. In the latter case you will catch the next-to-last subway back to Harvard Square, and that is contrary to the rules of the game...