Word: bannings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their professors petitioned Chiang Kaishek and Mao Tse-tung to settle the domestic quarrel. Last month, in defiance of an official ban, the students paraded in the streets. Soldiers fired rifle volleys in the air to disperse them. The students called a strike. Uniformed rowdies threw hand grenades that killed three students and one professor...
Then the Generalissimo, having demonstrated that he, too, wanted civil peace, urged the students to return to their classes. They would not go back, they answered, until the ban on public meetings was lifted...
...embattled apostrophiles seized their pens and rushed to the defense. The Times offered editorially to split the difference, ban the apostrophe in plurals like 1890s "whether our own proofroom is for us or against us." It added a thank-you-ma'am: after bowing for years under questions of solemn import, the world could well use some small controversies...
...metes and bounds of authorized athletics were set out in a recent order of the Berlin Kommandatura intended to ban group sports that might promote military training for young people. The new ruling requires sports clubs to abandon ten sports, specifically approves nine others...
...none of this bullishness has done U.S. investors any good. There is no way they can trade Axis dollar bonds in London or Frankfurt. Last week Wall Street buzzed with a rumor: the SEC may soon lift the ban on trading in Axis securities...