Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Ford employees from janitor to vice president have been forbidden to smoke on the job. Old Henry did not approve of smoking, thought it made workers inefficient. Last week, six months after Old Henry's death, Young Henry lifted the ban-for all but women office workers...
...replied Siqueiros: he was being tailed by a detective all the time, and 20 feet behind the detective lurked a party comrade. Usually, when he was arrested, he was treated as Mr. Siqueiros, a prominent artist who just happened to have some silly political quirks. But after leading a forbidden May Day parade he was beaten by cops until his body was covered with welts, thrown into solitary, and fed on what slops he could catch in his hands when the guard upturned the bucket. He spent a year in jail that time, and another on parole...
...Thursday; when refused, dozens stomped out to go elsewhere. When the average restaurant owner heard that his competitor was serving eggs on an eggless morning, he usually rolled his eyes, lifted his hands and did likewise. A crafty minority solved the problem by asking customers not to order forbidden foods and looking patriotically askance while serving those...
...that is, if you and I fail, here in Europe, or in America, or anywhere in the world-slavery has come again. Manuscripts will be banned, books will be burned, and writers and readers will once again be sitting in concentration camps for having thought dangerous ideas or uttered forbidden words...
...Mongolia should go to the assistance of the "People's Republic of Manchuria," the Soviet Union under its pact with Outer Mongolia regretfully would be obliged to use force to prevent the Chinese Government from inflicting injury on the forces of Outer Mongolia . . . the Chinese Government would be forbidden to attempt to recover its province of Manchuria...