Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swedish Foreign Office at midweek denied that any Swedes had been manhandled. The city hall incident fell apart when Officer Hans Melin, a Swedish policeman assigned to Margaret's party during her visit, testified that the U.S. Secret Service men had not brandished a pistol and had not forbidden anyone to enter. Said Melin: "The American police officer was not armed on the occasion. I myself...
This had the predictable effect. Newsmen and Congressmen began clamoring for release of the forbidden shocker. The State Department, Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency all insisted that the report be classified as secret, because its contents might give aid & comfort to Soviet propaganda in the Middle East. In June, after Senator John Sparkman's Small Business Committee demanded the report's release, Harry Truman didn't even bother to reply. He had already suppressed it for what he called the good of the nation. But after the Democratic Convention, when Sparkman, now the vice-presidential nominee...
Cardinal Segura fears that Protestants might take advantage of loopholes in the bill of rights to proselytize for their religion; such activity is not expressly forbidden. He would like Spain's government to reaffirm the 1851 concordat-abrogated in 1931 by the Spanish Republic-which pledges the state to assist the Catholic bishops, "especially when they are compelled to oppose the wickedness of men who are attempting to pervert the souls of the faithful and to corrupt their morals . . ." This, by Cardinal Segura's definition, would include any airing of Protestant ideas or any Protestant worship for Spaniards...
...face; 3) they might be rational beings who sinned against God but were never given the chance to regain grace, like evil angels of the Fall; or 4) they might have received supernatural gifts and kept them, leading the paradisiacal existence of Adam & Eve before they ate the forbidden fruit...
...monastery in southern Italy, he has helped thousands on their spiritual journey. Yet the church continually cautions that he is not to be regarded as a saint. Last week the Congregation of the Holy Office put eight books written about Padre Pio on the church's Index of Forbidden Books. Reason: they attributed unverified miraculous powers to a man still living...