Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple expedient of arrest. Churchgoers are being morally blackmailed by instructions that "less faithful attendance . . . means keeping your job." Party functionaries are quoted as asking Catholics to quit the church or quit the future of Greater Germany. Though Nazi Party meetings go on to small hours, young people are forbidden to attend evening church festivals, because "they last too long and prevent their getting sufficient sleep...
...Treasury is also forbidden by law to sell its silver below $1.29 an ounce. Washington lawyers managed to dope out a way to lend-lease it. The way: use silver instead of copper for bus bars in electric generating plants and in the "pot lines" of aluminum and magnesium plants. A typical large bus bar would take a chunk of silver 24 feet long, eight inches wide, three-fourths of an inch thick-weighing 650 lb. After the war the silver, little or none the worse for wear, could be replaced by copper again and returned to West Point...
...increased its wealth tenfold (now nearly $8,000,000 in endowment and plant) and created an idyllic little college. In a region where State universities predominate, Carleton (cost: $850 a year) is considered a rich boys' & girls' college, but President Cowling tolerates no swank. His students are forbidden cars, have no fraternities or sororities, devote themselves to such simple amusements as blanket parties in the Arboretum (a campus park). Freshmen wear little green caps (boys) or green mittens (girls...
When Norwegians were forbidden to attend a service at Trondheim Cathedral in February, thousands gathered outside the church in the bitter cold. "It was not an unruly mob," said one participant, "but thousands of Christians. We stood outside the cathedral, prevented by police from entering God's house. We were freezing but we could not leave the place. We had to find expression for what we felt. We were silent. Then I heard a voice start Luther's old hymn, A Mighty Fortress is Our God. We all sang and as we stood facing the police...
That night I met a young lieutenant of the Dutch Navy in a downtown hotel. He limped badly from a piece of shrapnel in his thigh, a souvenir of the Battle of the Java Sea. The doctor had forbidden him to leave the ship, but he hadn't been ashore for nine months. After a couple of highballs he had to leave because the leg hurt so badly, but before leaving he told his story: since the war started in '39, he had had seven ships shot out from under him, and the last time only...