Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through Seoul's dusty streets, Syngman Rhee hustled from meeting to meeting in his big, blue-black Lincoln. The car was almost the only civilian vehicle moving in South Korea. As the U.S. ban on petroleum supplies took effect (TIME, Nov. 15), buses halted, fishing boats lay idle, politicians bicycled to work. Rice piled up on the farms for lack of trucks, while in town 25,000 factory workers were unemployed and hungry. In Seoul's tearooms the word went round: "The old man is beaten...
...Mitch Miller at Columbia Records promptly produced letters from an Italian-American priest and a professor of languages at New York University denying that the vernacular words used in the song "could possibly be construed as offensive to anyone." At week's end Block, still sticking by his ban, explained: "The lyrics are only wrong to people who know dirty, low-down slang. In high-class society, 'jadrool' might just mean knuckle-head...
...Boston Garden will close its beer stands during college hockey games this winter for the second straight year. The liquor ban will also extend to spectators who may attempt to bring liquor to the game...
...days later, Lebanon's horrified Christian President and Moslem Premier met, agreed unanimously to ask the Parliament to ban all further outdoor religious ceremonies. And from now on, they agreed, between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., no churchbells would be allowed to toll, or loudspeakers to crackle from minarets...
Both Jim Cronin, owner of Jim's Place, and three House superintendents felt the "no-liquor" ban in the Stadium had subdued the crowd. "It probably kept everyone mildly sober, at least until we could serve them," Cronin said...