Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Council agreed to end press and postal censorship, warning publishers to toe the anti-Nazi line. It restored a limited sort of rail service, relaxed the galling ban on travel between the U.S., Russian, British and French zones. Now food, fuel and people could begin to move between those drum-tight compartments. Finally the Council sent secret "recom mendations" to the four Governments on recognition of the newly broadened Provisional government...
...Away. . . ." Government policy is to treat Japs already in Canada as human beings but to ban all further immigration. But not all Canadians subscribe to this policy. In the House of Commons Chester McLure, Conservative from Prince Edward Island, stood up and intemperately ranted: "Away with those human rats. God forbid that our nation should ever again allow one of them to set foot on Canada's soil." One Government official angrily cried that he would prefer, personally, "to throw out every god damned one of them," regardless of citizenship. No Government, of course, would ever allow such...
...Sinatra, long troubled about the "millions of people listening in" who have been irritated by the squealing of his fans, finally discovered how to keep the girls from chitter-barking. "I . . . tried everything-talking to them, reasoning with them-but still they squealed," so, he said, he decided to ban all applause till the end of the broadcast, and the faithful obeyed...
...their letters home, the Americans would remark that in Seoul the palaces face south, the city wall is all but gone, a tycoon is a yang ban, the favorite dish is shinsunro (beef, eggs, fish, chestnuts, etc.), the housewives wash their white clothes endlessly, and countrymen still wear miniature, translucent top hats, the traditional insigne of the married man. Very friendly people, too-everybody beaming and waving, and the children tagging along behind jeeps shrieking "Hello! hello...
Unfair. Railroad men winced at airline advertising gleefully announcing the end of air-travel priorities by Oct. 15. Quietly the railroads were urging that: 1) the Office of Defense Transportation relax its ban on sleeping-car runs of less than 450 miles; 2) the Army turn back a few of the 895 sleepers grabbed from the railroads in July, when troop movements were at their peak...