Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of them wear wrong clothes: forbidden peekaboo sweaters (bare at the waist) or transparent blouses. Many of them won't wear safe work suits, designed to prevent accidents. Most of them now wear slacks, but rebel at keeping their hair covered. Occasionally one gets scalped...
...cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor, in rows, for easier counting during change of guards. A favorite discipline forced them to sit, with heads bowed, as long as eight hours at a stretch, facing Tokyo. They called this the "New Order Kneeling Posture...
...observes Saturday as the Sabbath and celebrates the Passover. He eats nothing that is not kosher, though he prefers to call it "Biblically cooked." When he was studying the rules that govern his diet, he made a trip to Manhattan's aquarium and "checked on the habits of forbidden lobsters, crabs and oysters...
Most pacifists have forbidden themselves to buy war bonds and stamps. However, many feel justified in donating blood and have been active in the current Red Cross donor drive. Some even look upon duty with the American Field Service as not conflicting with their beliefs and may join in the near future...
Menzel and Aller, obtaining their results from a study of "enhanced" and "forbidden" lines in the spectra of planetaries, view the new findings as confirming their belief that the same proportion of elements make up all things in the universe...