Word: ban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ban on contraception is, in effect, an ironical move to weaken further a basic principle of the Christian faith: that every human life has worth. It has always been the tendency (whether sound or unsound) to value items in proportion to their multiplicity or scarcity-value increasing with the rarity of the object and decreasing with its abundance. Thus the explosion of the population has tended to cheapen human life in the eyes of many. It becomes increasingly difficult to say "thou" to a mass of flesh that bumps and pushes and encroaches more and more on free space, sacred...
Quietly Forgetting. Dubček somehow convinced the Russians to quietly forget the demands made in a quasi-ultimatum issued last month after a meeting in Warsaw with their hard-lining allies. At Cierna, he successfully resisted Soviet insistence that he restore censorship and ban non-Communist political organizations. He rebuffed the Russian call for a permanent Soviet garrison in Czechoslovakia to defend the country's borders with West Germany. More important, he got the Russians to pull out at last thousands of troops that had come to Czechoslovakia in June for Warsaw Pact maneuvers and had never gone...
...guns and certain types of ammunition.* However, charged the bill's disappointed floor manager, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, the measure left loopholes "aswide as the Grand Canyon." Among the 19 amendments adopted was one permitting gun collectors to qualify as "dealers" and thus become exempt from the interstate ban. Another amendment - a clear victory for the National Rifle Association - would exempt long-gun ammunition from the mail-order ban...
...spread that he had decided to veto the views of the commission majority. Last June, Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König, who had been briefed on the Pope's decision, pleaded with Paul to reconsider. König argued that a reaffirmation of the birth control ban would "do the church much damage...
...will especially hurt the areas of northern Italy and the United States where many Catholics practice birth control already. Revelle thought that in these areas the position would simply, "tear people apart," although he did not feel it would affect their birth control practices. In these areas then the ban would be disruptive to Catholic faith and beliefs...