Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orthodox Jews of the Diaspora have often hired non-Jews (goyim) to perform household tasks that are forbidden on the Sabbath (shabbos...
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People, won a Supreme Court decision forcing the University of Missouri to admit him to its law school on the ground that he could not find equal facilities anywhere else in the state. Since then. Negroes have found themselves on scores of once forbidden campuses. In almost every case, their experiences have fallen into a sort of pattern. There have been dire predictions of trouble and periods of tension. But the trouble has rarely materialized, and the tension has soon melted away...
Last week, invited to the forbidden city of Bucharest to report a Congress of the World Federation of Democratic Youth,† four Western newsmen got their first interview in five years with the Foreign Minister, and asked about the canal. His answer: "The material and moral forces of the people should be concentrated on those works that will most rapidly raise their living standards. The continuation or discontinuation of work on the canal is not essential." In other words, work on the canal had been dropped, and the reason given fitted in with the Kremlin's big switch from...
...devout Methodist father had expressly forbidden him to read the book, but 13-year-old William Ernest Hocking of Joliet, Ill. could not resist the temptation. A usually obedient boy, he sneaked Herbert Spencer's First Principles out to the haymow, read with horrified fascination the book's conclusion that whatever Supreme Power might lie behind the universe, it "is utterly inscrutable." When he had finished, young Hocking realized that "father was right: the damage was done. I had started out life with a perfectly sound brand of orthodox religion. Now, I had lost...
What started out as a forbidden idyll headed quickly toward disaster. Link had his pride, did not want to be simply a kept lover. When he tried to break with Camilo, she called him a nigger and cried rape. While the whole town was talking and racial tension was at its worst, Link was abducted to the Treadway home. There Camilo's husband shot him dead...