Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homely, weak, forbidden to play with more robust children, often left alone while the two women worked, he developed his own kind of compensation. "Any time I looked out the window," his mother recalls, "my boy was looking in the trash cans. He was always searching for something, but he didn't know what. He used to say, 'But Maggie, there might be something down there...
...National Defense Act also specifically limits the Secretary of Defense in his authority over summer training camps. Although the Defense Department is given the power to set up ROTC camps, it is legally forbidden to require more than six-week training periods except in time of national emergency...
...Kabuki theater from ceremonial shrine dances. At first, most of O-Kuni's female players were young courtesans, and as time went on, their costumes, gyrations and behavior developed an air of such gay abandon that "many people were led astray," say Japanese authorities. In 1629, women were forbidden to take part in the Kabuki theaters, and male actors have played all the female roles ever since...
...nearest police box to report direction of his car or taxi. George's chief mission was to spy on U.S. and Japanese forces. George cultivated a wide acquaintance among Tokyo's swarming streetwalkers, who have a wide acquaintance among G.I.s. His favorite haunt was The Forbidden City, a Chinese restaurant popular with servicemen. He was, U.S. Intelligence agents well knew, a lieutenant colonel in Beria...
...bossed its big truck plant during the war. At war's end, he had lost his job, his money and most of his belongings. Gaunt and hungry, Nordhoff scraped along for two years on handouts from friends; because he had been a top executive, he was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor-and even such jobs were not to be had. But the British asked him to boss Volkswagen in their zone...