Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last tones of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata for Soprano and Bass, No. 32 floated away, there was silence. Then, in an unexpected gesture, the tall, white-haired Bishop of Perpignan arose, raised his hands and gave the first clap, signaling an end to the church ban on applause. As bald little Pablo Casals bowed from the podium, the 2,000 listeners clapped so thunderously that a piece of plaster shook loose from the high roof, clattered into the church...
...Never ban TV, because that puts it m "the category of 'forbidden fruit...
...printers, engravers, stereotypers, pressmen and mailers had shown up for work. Although their A.F.L. and independent unions were not on strike, only a handful crossed the orderly picket line. The rest refused to cross, for fear of their "physical safety"-an explanation apparently designed to skirt the Taft-Hartley ban on secondary boycotts and to avoid violating their own union contracts...
ATOM BOMB OUTLAWED; NATIONS OF WORLD BAN WAR IN ANY FORM
...student-faculty group protested the ban, and a few weeks later brought Phillips to Ann Arbor, where he spoke to an off-campus audience of 300 crowded into a cafeteria, with 1000 people turned away outside...