Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles off Turkey. One boiling hot afternoon last week three British officers from the big cruiser H. M. S. Devonshire shoved off in a ship's boat for what Britons afterwards called "a sail and a swim." Their pleasure took them within wading distance of Turkey's forbidden shore. Suddenly, out of the underbrush raced ten Turkish coast guards brandishing rifles and shaking their fists...
...case of General Kurt von Schleicher, onetime Chancellor and Defense Minister, Military Chaplain Schleigel announced: "I will officiate at the funeral whether it is forbidden or not!" Elderly retired brother officers of General von Schleicher mustered up courage to send telegrams indicating disbelief in the Government's charge that their comrade and his wife had been "shot resisting arrest." Some of these telegrams, bold but not too bold, used a word combination possible only in German, expressing sorrow at the "comradeassassination...
...forbidden to give out any information," they ordered. "Here are two urns. They contain the ashes." Fearfully the von Schleicher kin buried the urns in a grave over which they dared not place the smallest cross or mark...
...first expedition, which had as its goal the Forbidden City of Lhasa, started in 1896. Over 16,000-ft. mountain passes, in bitter sub-zero weather, he led his dwindling caravan where no white men had ever been before; for 55 days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin...
...agreement of barter or swapping of commodities. If in 1903 the contract had been that 30 years later the maker would pay to the holder of each bond 100 piculs of Chinese opium, how would the case stand? Since 1903 the Congress, having the power to do so, has forbidden the importation of opium . . . and made the possession of it, in ordinary hands, a criminal offense. . . . "And so it follows that Public Resolution No. 10 is in my opinion valid, that the gold clause is therefore unenforceable...