Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lion escaped while the guards were busy with the other prisoners. He got to the street in civilian clothes. A Nazi cop hove in sight. Artist Hélion immediately went up to him and asked him the time. Asked the cop: "What are you doing in a forbidden area?" Said Hélion: "I'm a worker imported from Antwerp." He added: "Where can I get a decent glass of beer?" The cop directed him to his favorite bar. With German money obtained from secret sources Hélion got to Berlin. There, Hélion spent most...
News candidates get to know Cambridge and the University grounds as well as a Yard cop; they can enter Deans' offices without trembling; the magic word "CRIMSON candidate" will be an open sesame to such forbidden portals as the Navy smokers and the Old Howard dressing rooms...
...directly contrary to the law. This is absolutely the worst case of bad faith I have ever seen." Charged potato-minded Maine Republican Ralph O. Brewster: "You have condemned us to 65% of parity . . . we've got to move 15,000,000 bushels of potatoes and you have forbidden us the parity price provided by law." Fast-moving Jimmy Byrnes came back with a rush, explained that he was only doing what the President had told him to do. Snapped the ex-Supreme Court Justice: "If I believed this order violated the law I would ask the President...
...Martineau saw in America the hope of the worldwide struggle for freedom, she spoke out boldly against "evils as black as night" that crowded in on her as she moved South. Slavery she hated. She was horrified to think it could exist in the U.S. when Britain had already forbidden it. Friends warned her against entering the slave States where her Abolitionist opinions were known. She ignored the warnings, argued her way firmly, courteously through the South. Later on in Boston she met William Lloyd Garrison ("I thought Garrison the most bewitching personage I had met in the U.S."), spoke...
...Censorship employees frequently annoy cooperative correspondents in the field of national news. In June a group of Washington pressmen made a 24-day tour of important war plants as the guests of the National Association of Manufacturers. Accompanied by one Navy and six Army censors, the correspondents were forbidden to publish production figures that frequently appeared, fully covered, in local papers. At one plant they could not even mention the product manufactured, while it was being currently featured in a full-page magazine advertisement. Equally ridiculous was exaggerated secrecy over the President's recent tour. Delayed reports on the progress...