Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indignation was reflected in a Gallup poll, which indicated that 72% of the public was sure that strikes in defense industries should be forbidden. Bills to curb strikes, unions, union activity were considered in Congress, in many a State legislature. The Oklahoma Senate, the Texas House, the Georgia Legislature had already voted such measures. New York's Senate passed one last week. Everywhere the conviction-sometimes the almost hysterical conviction-grew that something must be done. But what...
...House Correspondents' Association, after the heavy-handed political clowning that marks newsmen's gatherings, President Roosevelt spoke for 34 minutes. All the national networks carried his voice. From Boston, short-wave broadcasts repeated it in 14 European languages. The British rebroadcast it and sent translations to the forbidden radios of Germany. Said...
...Tokugawa Era, which began in 1600, Japan withdrew into its shell like a frightened hermit crab. Feudalism was established; foreigners were driven from the country or tossed from mountaintops; Japanese were forbidden to leave Japan. This period, in many ways Japan's greatest and in many ways the shape of things-to-come in 20th-century Europe, ended in 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Perry. The Japanese people, who are by nature the world's cleverest imitators, entered into a new era of imitation of all things foreign...
...military career. Admiral Sims, who had a beard and a social background, uttered sacrilegious sentiments about air power and was not struck down, but the bodacious blurt did him no good with his brother Navy men. Since their brash days, no active service man has publicly peeped on the forbidden subject...
...hopes of a quick peace faded, the soldiers got quieter and quieter. Homesick talk vastly increased, photographs of families were more in evidence. R. A. F. raids on Antwerp and over Germany sandpapered the soldiers' nerves. Against strict orders, they got drunk oftener. By September, soldiers were forbidden to carry sidearms. More & more of them listened to the London broadcasts (penalty, two years in a concentration camp). Such symptoms might never focus in revolt; but it was safe to say that German morale could never regain its high pitch of summer...