Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harassing the bull" is not an agitator and is not in the ring for the purpose of harassment. He is there to test the bull's eyesight, his manner of charging, his use of the horns. He deserves no sympathy if he gets caught, since he is practically forbidden to put himself in any danger. If he works close to the bull and looks good, he detracts from the maestro's performance. If he gets caught, he may spoil the bullfight: the bull often becomes too dangerous after he has tossed a man once...
...Arthur Jones & Fred Stamer; book by Billy Gilbert & Gen Genovese; lyrics by Mr. Genovese) is the sort of 1880-style musical that would have looked old hat in 1912. In 1952 it is overpoweringly tedious and trite-all about G.I.s in an occupied Italian village where fraternizing is forbidden. An American captain is secretly married to a native girl, the girl is going to have a baby, a sentimental old Italian wants his wife to have one, and the village needs one more inhabitant to graduate into a town. Though Buttrio Square is the center-of-life in an Italian...
...larger than 8 ft. by 2½ ft., or Japanese lanterns-for night parades-higher than 30 in., 6) talk to voters in their own homes, 7) campaign at all between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Neon signs and balloons were barred. Newspapers were forbidden to support any candidate or to mention a candidate's name in a picture caption...
...undergraduate publication. With more than 500 students living in a single hall, the Dean's Office is presented with an almost insoluble parietal rules problem. But the Columbia administration has found the simplest solution--one which makes for a rather dull existence, but a solution nonetheless--women are absolutely forbidden to enter men's dormitories. it would, indeed, require a veritable army of proctors to keep checks on such massive residences...
They didn't complain. They didn't protest. They just waited. Forbidden by Islamic law to wear hats on hajj, they sat huddled hour after hour under the broiling sun, certain that Allah, in his wisdom, would somehow get them to Mecca. Lebanese peddlers did a land-office business selling umbrellas against the fierce heat. "Yallah, hajji [Out of the way, pilgrim]!" cried airport attendants. The huddled groups moved aside, returned and continued to wait-for once on hajj, no pilgrim ever turns back...