Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessity for sterilizing the copies," says Editor Stanley Stein, 52, a onetime Texas pharmacist who has been a Carville patient for 20 years. "We do it only as a gesture of respect to the unconvinced." Stein and the Star make no other concessions to popular prejudice. The fight to ban the word "leper" has been officially won: U.S. health officers are under orders not to use it. Stein and the Star are still battling against the word "leprosy" itself...
After several weeks of vacillation, all of Penn's major opponents said they would cancel their scheduled games with Penn if the Quakers persisted in having all their games televised. The N.C.A.A. threatened to expel Penn unless it agreed to the TV ban by a given date. One day before this date, Penn surrendered its position...
...world-wide ban on the growing of the opium poppy...
...policemen, who deeply and bitterly resent the coercive threats of this stumbling, petty dictator." Then he rushed the roster of his union out of the state so that it could not be seized, announced he would organize secretly, and filed suit for an injunction against the Monaghan ban...
...this way monotheism led Mohammed to ethics. Like the Jews, he interpreted the First Commandment so strictly that Moslems were forbidden to make any kind of picture or "image," and the ban holds today. He forbade the use of alcohol, and the majority of Moslems have obeyed this prohibition through the centuries. (Today, most well-to-do Moslems who have social contact with Westerners do drink.) Mohammed sternly forbade sexual promiscuity, but for males this was greatly modified by permitting men to have as many as four wives, to divorce them at will, and to keep concubines in addition...