Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hindu and Sikh princes near territories which Mohamed Ali Jinnah claims for Pakistan opposed the creation of a Moslem state. Prominent among them was the suave, thoroughly Westernized Maharaja of Kapurthala. Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow near, is trying to gain the friendship of the Sikh community. Recently he celebrated the baptism of his young grandson, who drank sugar liquid mixed by five Sikh priests, chanted Sikh hymns, and swore never...
...give his opinion on any subject, concurred: "We must make sure that we don't chip away our freedoms to get at conspirators. ... It would be folly to do anything that in the long run proved as harmful as the things we seek to correct." His solution: ban Communists from office in unions, cooperatives and corporations...
Archbishop decreed, when he arrived at Santa Fe in 1851, that the barbaric santos be destroyed, and replaced by conventional images and chromes imported from Lamy's native France. More than a thousand santos-today mostly to be found in southwestern museums-survived the Archbishop's ban...
Britain's midweek sport ban, designed to eliminate the temptations that lure workers from their jobs, had forced two of the year's biggest events into a single Saturday. At Aintree (just north of Liverpool), the 4½-mile steeplechase course, toughest in the world, was a quagmire. As if there were not already enough obstacles on the Grand National Steeplechase (which determines the Irish Sweepstakes winners), nature had added a few more: first frozen ground, then floods. The odds on strongly backed Bricett* shot up to 40-1 after a training injury...
...breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden's 88-year-old King Gustaf moved down to the French Riviera for the sun & fun. Arid in Britain's House of Lords, Christopher Maude Chavasse, one-legged Lord Bishop of Rochester, plugged for a ban on liquor in workers' restaurants on the ground that young couples "do not want their courting in public houses ; they want the ordinary tea shop." Lord Latham retorted that he was "not convinced that you can carry out a more colorful courtship in a tea shop, even though...