Word: curfew
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...made a record by passing $1,000,000-and the dog tracks do as much as $100,000 apiece at night. . . . Real estate is changing hands at million-dollar tunes. . . . The beaches are deep in vacation humanity, the nightclubs are roaring in spite of a midnight curfew on drinks,* and Midas has moved back to Miami...
...Nazis' 6 p.m. curfew on Rome forced Pope Pius XII to omit his customary midnight Mass, substitute a private Mass...
...helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...
Last week his case put an abrupt end to the latest crusade of the Durban police, who are forever rounding up poll-tax evaders and curfew violators. Thundered the Hon. A. A. R. Hathorn, judge-president of the Natal Supreme Court: "The police seem to expect a married man to wave his marriage certificate every time he wishes to exercise his marital rights...
...thieves whom the Germans, with diabolic humor, had released from Naples' jails before they cleared from the city. They went through the city looting. Others were the kin of men who had been executed by German firing squads, or shot on sight for being on the streets after curfew. They sought out Neapolitan Fascists to lynch them. Yelling girls ran with them. Older women gaped from doorways at the corpses of neighbors lying in gutters, screeched and waved their hands, ducked out of sight when German bombers roared overhead...