Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alice took care of Francis Thompson. They sent him to a hospital, then to the monastery at Storrington in Sussex-a country of Roman roads, rolling fields, abandoned chalk mines, rooks and sheep. Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself...
...City. An armed showdown had come between the Communist-cored EAM and its fighting wing ELAS on the one side, and the coalition Government of Socialist Premier George Papandreou with the backing of the British occupation forces, on the other. Ever since the police fired on a forbidden EAM demonstration, called to protest the surrender of its arms (TIME, Dec. 11), open warfare had raged in the ancient capital...
Blood in Athens. It was a sun-drenched Sunday. But British Tommies and grey-clad Greek police rimmed Athens' Constitution Square. Premier George Papandreou had forbidden a demonstration by the Communist-controlled EAM. Presently the sound of thousands of people marching and chanting swelled and ebbed like surf. The marchers broke a police cordon. They carried flags of Russia, Greece, Britain, the U.S. Men, women & children surged toward Government Palace. Police Chief Paunias Ebert ordered: "Fire...
...trial lasted 23 days. All of the defendants offered alibis. Two, in addition, claimed as proof of innocence the fact that they had been circumcised. Circumcised persons are forbidden to join in the ritual of painting stools with human blood. The seven jurors (six natives, one European) retired, scanned the exhibits, deliberated three hours. The verdict: all defendants guilty...
...Scribner Editor Maxwell Perkins once discovered a four-letter word in a Hemingway manuscript, showed it to the late Publisher Charles Scribner. "Remember," he said, "that we're forbidden by contract to change a word [of Hemingway]." "Dear, dear." said Mr. Scribner, "we will have to discuss this fully when I return from lunch." Then he vaguely jotted down the word on a pad headed: "What To Do Today...