Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before Sailing. In Bonn, West Germany, new fire instruction signs in a nine-story parliament building read: "It is forbidden to jump out of top-floor windows without authorization of professional fire brigade...
...another era, intervention to protect national interests was accepted international practice, and the U.S. (having in the Monroe Doctrine forbidden Europe from intervening in the Western Hemisphere) used the doctrine at San Juan Hill, on the Isthmus of Panama, and in several other Caribbean countries where U.S. property and business were threatened. Then, bowing to Latin American opinion and cries of "dollar diplomacy," the U.S., under Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, abandoned intervention, first in practice (the troops were withdrawn from three countries) and then in principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle...
Each guardsman must be 6 ft. tall, a practicing Catholic of "good" family. All are unmarried (except officers); all must sign up for five years of long, lonely hours patrolling Vatican corridors; only a lucky few draw outdoor posts. Fraternization with civilians is forbidden. The guards worship in their own chapel in Vatican City, have their own canteen, even their own cemetery. Pay is low, and there is a 10 p.m. curfew in summer, 9 p.m. in winter...
...effort to measure at least part way up to such an example, English editors have placed unsavory divorces on their Irish forbidden list, along with ads or news stories on football pools, sex crimes, abortion and contraception. Venereal disease has not been mentioned in the Irish press in modern memory, and artificial insemination of barnyard animals is primly reduced to initials-A.I.-from Ballyshannon to Bantry...
That, as far as Belle was concerned, was the end of the glory road, but she lived on for another quarter-century-"still preferring forbidden fruit, still daring to pick it." and writing her memoirs with the help -of English Teacher Myra Chipman. Two years ago, in a "basement hovel" in Manhattan's East Fifties. Belle died at the age of 82, having designed her own tombstone with the inscription: "This is the only stone I have left unturned...