Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back countries of the Moslem world, the men who can afford it still keep the Allah-granted quota of four wives. Unable to read, forbidden to attend schools, or to listen to the deliberations of the males, millions of Islamic women remain quietly in their houses, unaware that there is any world beyond the narrow one visible through the slits in their veils...
...piggeries; but the town's neighbors do, and so do millions of travelers who pass through by rail or over the New Jersey Turnpike. For years the authorities have tried to make New Jersey's Moonbeam a little daintier. Further expansion of pig farming was forbidden in 1948 (with the result that the pigs became more & more crowded). Reluctant industry was urged to move to Secaucus, and even now plans are under way to build a race track there, possibly on the theory that horses smell better than pigs...
...chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Linklater also knows his classical drama and how to make it a vehicle for his grouch. Laxdale Hall is a modern variation on Euripides' Bacchanals, in which sobersided King Pentheus is first treed, then torn apart by furious women because he has forbidden them to join in the orgies of the wine god Dionysus...
Early Birds. In Bourg-Saint-Andéol, France, Mayor Pierre Tiéri sternly advised local fishermen that theirs was "an agreeable pastime, but you are absolutely forbidden to tear up paving in the streets in order to search for worms...
Freedom of Propaganda. The government in Bogotá decided that freedom of religion, guaranteed under the Colombian constitution, does not imply "freedom of propaganda." Protestants were forbidden to distribute tracts. Last March, Protestant radio programs in Bogotá were ruled...