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Word: bans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes were on Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, army chief of staff, who led an abortive revolt against Parliament in 1952, might do so again. Hardworking, anti-Communist General Nasution proclaimed a ban on all political activity "until further notice," and, to protect the boss, ordered that no newspaper be allowed to publish pictures showing Sukarno kissing anyone, since public kissing is offensive to many Moslems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Evil Hearts of Men | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Albania. More than this would be required to justify a further trip to the summit. Casting about for a relatively harmless concession, the Russians indicated that they were willing to be somewhat more reasonable about an inspection system to enforce the long-discussed ban on nuclear testing. To France, which is making its own H-bomb and hopes soon to test it, this was no attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The Glacier | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Earl's Whirl | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Tubman's father is a Georgia-born Methodist minister who became Speaker of Liberia's House of Representatives. Tubman himself is a cigar-chomping ban vivant who likes to have the towers of Monrovia's Saturday Afternoon Club specially illuminated whenever he drops in at night. He runs his Ohio-sized country with the benign shrewdness of an oldtime U.S. city boss and a good many of the trappings of an African autocrat. If Liberia is still one of the most backward countries in Africa, its pace of advance is now among the fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Old Pro | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Haven, Conn., three Protestant clergymen filed a suit in Superior Court to contest the constitutionality of Connecticut's 79-year-old law forbidding the spread of birth control information. The law, originally coupled with a ban on the sale, distribution or printing of obscene literature, has been under attack for years by physicians and their patients, but is regularly kept in force by the state senate, strongly supported by the large urban concentrations of Roman Catholic constituents. The New Haven ministers -the Rev. C. Lawson Willard of Trinity Episcopal Church, Luther R. Livingston of Bethesda Lutheran Church, and George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Birth & Death | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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