Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feeling a good deal like Siberian exiles, the museum men whiled away the long, blitzless days by whamming golf balls across the manicured terraces or romping with a police dog named Peggy. Drinking was strictly forbidden...
When repatriated, I attempted to rejoin General Chennault from Lourenco Marques, but was forbidden to leave the exchange ship by Secretary Hull. I have been trying to rejoin him ever since, and when my application for a commission was at first rejected by the Army, I accepted service in China as a civilian official only to make myself useful to him in the best way I could. You will understand, therefore, that a certain thread of consistency connects the various phases through which I have passed...
Teddy White of TIME'S Chungking office was the first American newsman in years to enter the forbidden vastnesses of Chinese Turkestan...
Velasco Ibarra has one disadvantage: he is not in Ecuador. The President has forbidden him to re-enter the country, from which he was exiled in 1940. Undiscouraged, Velasco Ibarra recently set up headquarters at Pasto across the Colombian border. From that point he conducts a fly-by-night campaign by means of furtive messengers. His position with the voters is apparently strong; but fearing electoral fraud, he is said to be hoping for Army support, a near-necessity for a would-be President of Ecuador...
Half the game was played by Canadian rules, half by American. This meant that during the first half there were twelve men on a side ; interference was forbidden more than three yards ahead of the line of scrimmage; the backfield could be in motion before the ball was snapped...