Word: banned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy's coat was of many colors, his house was of many mansions. There were mistakes--Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, arguably the Missile Crisis. Yet there were positive steps forward--a move toward detente with the Test Ban Treaty, the recognition of a world of diversity and of a nation's right to neutrality, the moral acknowledgement that the situation of black people was a disgrace to the nation. If these "calmer days" are to bring us a clearer judgment of JFK, then the black must be seen with the white, with a good deal of gray in between...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1974 ban on the use as a propellant of vinyl chloride, shown to be the cause of a rare form of liver cancer, from a host of aerosol products...
...January 1976 ban on the use of Red Dye No. 2 as a food coloring...
Fortunately, the ban lasted only two years; and in 1897, The Game made its return, only to end in an unsatisfying 0-0 tie. After failing to score from the Yale five-yard line, the Crimson was so disgusted that it forfeited the traditional H awarded at the close of the football season...
While reversal of the interhouse ban shows an admirable concern for the inconvenience such a ban causes, these officials should have fully considered the possibility that students may still contract salmonella, and spread it through interhouse...