Word: contrabanding
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Caterpillar eggs recently joined the ranks of unsiezed contraband. Two ardent Yardling biologists this fall actually resorted to smuggling eggs from Canada in trying to raise half a dozen Japanese silk forms and earn...
...program fearsomely scrutinized [by the intellectuals] for imperialistic aims or the intent to impose our will-or our way-on our allies or the oppressed peoples . . . With reluctance, we were permitted to rearm and arm our allies. Programs for material aid were approved, but they were searched for political contraband; heaven forbid, that we should slip copies of the Declaration of Independence, and political directions for duplicating it, into our CARE packages. Support of "reactionary" politicians was deplored, but neither were we to raise the slogans of political liberation, or democratic self-rule along American lines. That was political interference...
...vice president. Late this spring an Italian operator took a shipment of Iranian oil (TIME, June 30). Sadika held her breath while the Italian tanker tried to get through to Naples, practically wept when the ship's owner capitulated to the British (who treat Iranian oil as contraband) and put in at Aden. Swallowing her tears, Sadika Garagozlou then & there decided to buck the British...
...remember the story about John Bohling and the seizure of his contraband Mettwurst by customs officials (TIME, March 17). Bohling had brought 8 Ibs. of the German pork sausage back with him from his first visit to his native Germany in 23 years. Because uncertified meat may not be imported from countries where there is foot-and-mouth disease, the sausage was confiscated by the Department of Agriculture...
Coup. Near Matamoros, Mexico, customs inspectors found contraband needles in a truckload...