Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacetime, nearly sixty per cent of the nation's births are in families on relief, or living on a wage inadequate to provide for a growing family. Because doctors are forbidden by law to give contraceptive advice thousands of families through sheer innocence multiply more rapidly than they should for a mother's health or a breadwinner's wallet. Slum victims in or out of the city need medical advice as much as privileged residential dwellers. But in Boston already seven birth control clinics have been closed, while people of higher incomes can casually make a doctor's appointment behind...
Baranov's disciplinary rules were rigid. There was a parade before the flag every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually...
Fact was that a good six of the 23 days had been needed for a very essential process: Congress had to cool down enough to stop spluttering over the President's attack on it for having forbidden price control of farm products below 110% of parity...
...Money should be sent only by money order (in foreign countries importing U.S. money may be forbidden...
Pilots have long been forbidden to fly for at least four days after sulfa treatment. The American Medical Association urges anyone who has taken the drugs to wait several days before driving an auto, making important decisions or signing important papers...