Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doctors and patients should not be scared away from the use of new and powerful drugs by warnings of their dangers or reports of occasional deaths, said the New England Journal of Medicine: "To withhold or ban most such drugs would reverse medical progress and lead to the death of many patients who might have been saved by the proper use of the drug...
...outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease last fortnight forced the U.S. to restore the ban on Mexican cattle...
Intolerable Conditions. Many sad confusions result. Desiring foreign capital investment, the Indonesians devise intolerable conditions for its operation. They launch a reconstruction program, then impose heavy tariffs on the tools of reconstruction; a health program, but ban the import of X-ray films; an education drive, then double the import duty on school textbooks. Rather than have their army trained by Western military experts, they would have it untrained...
...Mickey was playing shortstop for the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids in the Ban Johnson League. He was big enough to deserve at least a perfunctory glance from the baseball scouts. But nobody seemed interested in glancing Mickey's way. The Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...
...Carison, YGOP member, introduced the resolution December 19. Asking the college to ban all subversive groups, he said, "such groups do the work of the Communist party." Speaking for the resolution, John Fritschler, Young Republican chairman for the Big Ten Colleges, said, "we must prevent the training of traitors on campuses...