Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article . . . reminded me of something Alex Bernal said when, as an eight-year-old neighbor, he helped pick the fruit in our yard. Forbidden to climb the trees, Alex had been struggling for hours with a long-handled rake .to get three persimmons hanging out of reach. Finally he said, "Mrs. Mackey, why couldn't you climb this tree...
Fact v. Opinion. One radioman who has worried greatly over this slack-mouthed matter is CBS News Editor Paul White. Recently Paul White, who has an able staff of warcasters, told the Associated Press Managing Editors Association that commentators should be forbidden to editorialize on the news...
...Defense. W. T. Grant's answer to OPA's complaint concentrated on this manifest absurdity. The answer pointed out that under MPR-330, 37 Grant stores are forbidden to sell a $10.98 coat that 401 others could still carry because they never sold coats before. Just for good measure, the defense also alleged that the whole Price Control Act, not to mention MPR-330, violates the Fifth ("due process") Amendment of the Constitution...
...hopeful girls, 33 in all, were held practically incommunicado. (City fathers were sure that the 10,000 soldiers, sailors, Coast Guardsmen in the area were all on the prowl.) The girls were forbidden dates, drinking, smoking, gum-chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...
Army & Navy authorities have gone after the rats with traps, poison and sanitation control in the village. In addition, hunters have been forbidden to shoot such valued rat killers as hawks, eagles, owls and foxes. As a final touch, the Army called up part of its K-9 Corps, ordered a dozen specially trained terriers from the States. The Aleutian, official servicemen's publication, announced: "The WOOFS are coming." For the first time in Dutch Harbor's history, the rats were definitely...