Word: curfew
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...veterans assembled to get the play in shape. Dramatic careers being strictly extra curricular in Hawaii, the cast includes several university professors, a protege of Martha Graham, and even a couple of censors. . . . Nightly rehearsals were held in a windowless prop room, and because of the strict blackout and curfew orders, special passes had to be issued to get the actors through a line of itchy-fingered sentries each night...
...Zagreb, capital of "independent" Croatia, curfew rings at 11. A fortnight ago, intrigued by the announcement that curfew would not ring that night until 12, the good folk of Zagreb gathered inquisitively in the main square. Shortly after 11, Foreign Minister Mladen Lorkovich appeared, thundered that the puppet government of Ante Pavelich had decided to declare...
...Government started seizures by grabbing six leading German firms, including Zeiss (opticals) and Bayer (drugs). In Rio de Janeiro State it slapped a 9 p.m. curfew on Axis nationals, forbade them to travel elsewhere without salve-conducto, rounded up a few more potential troublemakers...
Hawaii is dark as the grave. Hawaiians say proudly that Honolulu's blackout is "blacker than London's." After curfew sounds, at 9 p.m., any civilian found on the street may be arrested or shot...
...people of Manila went home to their dark lodgings and locked the doors-although the curfew is not until ten. There they thought of things they had seen...