Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Immediately following his testimony, Kasper was denounced by Hockett and the officials of the K.K.K. in Florida. He was last heard of in Wetumpka, Alabama, where the White Citizens Council had forbidden him to speak...
...fight for control of Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Financier Leopold Silberstein operated with all the cloak-and-dagger tactics of international intrigue. He masked his buying of F-M stock by using Swiss banks, which are forbidden by law to reveal names of customers, and by making purchases from a handful of mysterious sellers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for helping Silberstein. All told, said Silberstein last week, his Penn-Texas Corp., a grab bag of 20 companies has bought-or agreed to buy-some $35 million in F-M shares. He can count...
...other offering, an Italian film, Three Forbidden Tales, tells the usual Poignant stories of rape, unrequited and misdirected love, shattered pride, sex, and death in fairly nauseating fashion...
...required to put out this sort of briefing for the Carnival date. "Sleep. Do it all before you arrive 'cause those strong, starved outdoorsmen as well as tweedy, pudgy pals have so much on your agenda, and so much stamina to back it up with that sleeping is practically forbidden, almost taboo, and don't suggest it to your date under any conditions ... Dartmouth Men are proud, husky men who like a lot of fun. Remember that...
...Horseplayers all over the U.S. groaned to learn that Postmaster General Summerfield has forbidden the use of the U.S. mails to Mexico's Caliente Future Book. Otherwise restricted to on-course pari-mutuel betting or illegal off-course bookmakers, Caliente's bettors could formerly mail a bet to the Mexican book months in advance of such big stakes as the Garden State or the Kentucky Derby, pick their horse from a long list of possible entries at odds as high as 1,000 to 1, get back 10% of their bet if their horse simply started...