Word: curfews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curfew in Rosario. Amid the joyous uproar it was easy to forget that some Argentines were sorry to see Juan Perón go. The grievances recited by General Lonardi-that Peron subverted the laws, violated constitutional rights, mismanaged the economy, packed the courts, burned churches and permitted vast graft-were all true enough. But Peron also gave organized labor, which the old. established parties had never bothered to court, a new sense of dignity and importance-that was the real secret of his success...
State of Siege. Under the command of General Franklin Lucero, Perón's trusted Army Minister, the government fought back. Lucero & Co. put the entire country under a state of siege, clamped an 8 p.m. curfew on the capital. Loyalist forces besieged the Rio Santiago naval base. Pounded by planes and outnumbered at least two to one on the ground, the defending navymen surrendered late that night. The next morning the government announced that its troops had wrested Arroyo Seco and Curuzú-Cuatiá from the rebels...
...ancient Smyrna), Turkey's third largest city and NATO's southeastern headquarters, homes of Greek NATO officers were pillaged, and the Greek consulate was razed. Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes declared martial law in the three cities. The army moved in with tanks, imposed a curfew and, by dawn, had locked up more than 2,000 rioters. Throughout Turkey more than 4,000 stores and 78 churches lay gutted...
Then word came from Lucky Luciano, No. 1 exiled racketeer, who has plenty of money but also plenty of problems created by Italian police: he has to report every Sunday, observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew and stay away from bad company. Luciano announced: "I absolutely refuse to be in any way involved in this affair. It is not my business. I am very happy in Italy. I lead a disciplined life...
...candlelight procession in the chapel. Real recreation comes now, from 7:30 to 8:30. The sisters usually spend it in the large, attractive community room, chatting. At 9 o'clock all sisters pause wherever they are to recite to themselves the De Profundis for the dead. Curfew rings at 9:30, but not all the sisters go right to bed. Mother Mary Columba's light burns late into the night...