Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child find out, by the oldfashioned, hard way, that fire hurts; a little blister is better than interference with a crawling child's new-found freedom, or than making fire into something forbidden and therefore tempting...
...panicky city and its press. The harried commander of Shanghai's Nationalist garrison rushed into print with a censorship order that brought a snicker even from the censored newsmen. Stated Regulation No. 6: "Except [for] the news released by this headquarters, all ... newspapers and news agencies are forbidden to publish other inaccurate war news...
...1920s. For a time, the tree was the scene of unofficial ceremonies built around a dirty story contest; women were strictly barred, but many of them used to sneak late the lower floors of Yard buildings and listen in through half-closed windows. This too was finally forbidden...
MacLeish would make no comment last night, and members of the faculty are forbidden to make statements on appointments which are not final...
MONASTERY SECRETS . . . the Forbidden Knowledge of Tibet . . . Like the streams that trickle from the Himalayan heights to the plateau below, the great truths of these brotherhoods have descended through the ages...