Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...
...were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...
...being hampered by their anxieties over the problems of living." ¶ Unless food can be imported, some Japanese will starve this winter. For exports, Japan could provide up to 2,000 tons of tea and 135,000 bales of raw silk. To preserve silk for export, MacArthur has forbidden the Japs to use it themselves. ¶ After a long ban on unions, workers are now allowed to organize, and "emergence of a strong unified labor movement" is in prospect. ¶ Businessmen had been under Government control so long they found it hard "to plan and operate independently," hence reconversion...
...Pfarrer noticed his accent and began to question him. The boy admitted: "I am an American." He pleaded: "But please marry us. I'll pay 200 cigarets and 20 candy bars. How about it?" Although soldiers in the U.S. Army of Occupation are forbidden to marry German girls, the German minister knew of no law which would bar him from performing the ceremony. He married them...
...evil smoke rose from Peiping's Forbidden City. By order of the National Government, a public bonfire was consuming 800,000 ounces of confiscated opium. China's great drive against the drug traffic was under way again...