Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep within Peking's Forbidden City, beneath lacquered ceilings, Mao Tse-tung last week received the onetime Prime Minister of Great Britain, Clement Attlee, and the Labor Party delegation to Red China. It was the first significant audience Mao had granted Westerners since he conquered vast China...
...Attlee & Co. were graciously guided along Peking's streets, past glowering portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov. Stalin and Molotov, through the famed Gate of Heavenly Peace into the old Forbidden City. They visited a model jail, well stocked with some 3,600 political prisoners, where they were told by a jailer that corporal punishment was forbidden, and "It is not permitted even to scold a prisoner...
Germany's Lufthansa, commercial cousin of Hitler's Luftwaffe, will soon be air borne again. Last week in Cologne, its board of directors held their first postwar meeting in a bomb-battered building. Since the surrender of 1945, Germans have been forbidden to own or operate aircraft, but the ban will soon be lifted. Lufthansa's aircraft (four U.S. Convairs and four Constellations) are due for early delivery, its prewar chief of operations is back as manager, and the pilots are in harness again. Buttressed by government subsidies, Lufthansa's aircraft will soon be taking...
...South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia are forbidden to enter any military alliance that might defer their eventual submission to Communism...
Only one thing was sure: the trial was no ordinary race. Drivers would lose points for passing secret check points too early or too late; they would be penalized for drifting off course or breaking any one of a long list of rules. They were forbidden to replace a whole host of parts (which were coated with luminous paint to make them glow under ultraviolet light as a check against cheating). The trial would not go to the swift, but to the steady...