Word: forbidden
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...thirds of his class in order to participate in athletics. This means he must have an average some-what better than 70--and 70 is considered a "distinction" grade at New Haven. Under this arrangement, a scholarship-holder with "distinction" marks in all his courses may still be forbidden to participate in sports, while a non-scholarship holder with less than "distinction" (but still passing) grades can continue to play. In certain instances undergraduates are actually giving up scholarships in order to engage in Yale athletics, thus imposing an unnecessary and difficult financial burden on their parents...
Onetime Lords Chancellor are forbidden to return to the practice of law. Lord Jowitt, with time on his hands, turned to the study of the Hiss case. With the affinity of many non-Communist leftists for the Hiss defense, and with the British tendency to consider the U.S. "hysterical" about Communists, it surprised no one that Jowitt found for Alger Hiss. It may be a shock to some readers, however, that a onetime Lord Chancellor does "not pretend to know" about Communist morality and that he cannot get facts as an ordinary American jury got them...
Back in New York two days later, Oatis was greeted at the airport by his wife and more than 200 newsmen. Meanwhile the State Department, which had cut off all trade with Czechoslovakia, banned tourist travel and forbidden Czech planes to fly over the U.S. zone of Germany, made it clear that no "deal" had been made with the Czechs to get Oatis freed...
...Washington auditorium, Constitution Hall. DAR rule has taught many Negroes that the Hall is an exclusive place. Two time loser Hazel Scott, colored wife of Representative Powell, found that the Daughters didn't like her kind of singing. While few negroes have similarly tried twice, the Hall has been forbidden ground to over fifteen colored entertainers in the last five years, and just to prove that they do not discriminate only against the entertainment industry, the Daughters ejected an Ethiopian Minister in the middle of a scientific convention. Marian Anderson, the first celebrity to meet Constitution Hall's closed doors...
...Council also passed an ordinance for a 30-day trial of all-night parking on the odd-numbered sides of all 40-foot streets on odd days of the month, and even-numbered sides on even days. A list of streets where parking is forbidden will be released to local newspapers...