Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divided and warring India our New Delhi bureau was having "no (repeat no) Christmas celebration." In Tokyo, TIME Inc.'s staff was forbidden by occupation directives to share food or give American gifts to Japanese. In Moscow, where rationing had ended, John Walker had assembled a Ukrainian doll for his infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas...
...London of Kansas, in Manhattan for a visit, dropped in at the opera, and was forbidden to enter the Metropolitan Opera Club for a snack at intermission: he was not wearing tails. Though his host was the club's president, Landon reported later, "nothing . . . would change the mind of the man at the door." Observed the onetime candidate for President of the U.S.: "It's not the first time I was barred from a place...
Although there will be no smoking in the reading room itself, there are few other places where it is forbidden, and a special room is even being set aside expressly for talking and smoking...
...beginning to look a little drawn, his sinus trouble has not bothered him in London's unusually dry, bright weather. His stomach (he once had "most of the insides cut out" as a result of the Argonne gassing) is well enough so that he can sneak an occasional forbidden Martini or cigarette...
...Bennett and his new servant, traveling through the hills, took by surprise a village where the forbidden "rope festival" was about to be held. In this rite, believed to make the fields fertile, the sacrificial victim had a sporting chance; he had to ride a forked stick down a rope stretched from a 500-ft. cliff to the fields below...