Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last poilu's gaiter on the reconciliation of its two chief partners: France and Germany. It is at French insistence that the West imposes nettlesome restrictions on German sovereignty. Theoretically because West Germany is a "strategically exposed area," chiefly because of French fears, the Germans are forbidden to manufacture atomic, biological and chemical weapons. They would be allowed to recruit an 85,000-man air force, but not to make airplanes. They may build guided missiles-but only for short-range use: the British, remembering what Hitler's V-2s did to London, vetoed long-range rockets...
...Apparently Rabbi Bernstein does not realize that the practice of artificial birth control is not a sin for Catholics because forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church, but rather is forbidden by the church because it is wrong for all people...
...found a bad situation. U.S. personnel were reluctant to enter some of the fanatical Communist compounds. The Communists elected their own leaders and councils, ran their enclosures like self-contained Red fortresses, organized their own drills and classes, flew illegal Communist flags, established liaison with other compounds, engaged in forbidden trade with Koje natives. Once before, they had seized Colonel Raven, held him for three hours, complained of their food and tried to force him to eat some...
...past crises, strong U.S. Presidents have always asserted broad definitions of their power. Judge Pine quoted from the autobiography of Republican Theodore Roosevelt: It was "not only [a President's] right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws . . ." Even Republican William Howard Taft, Roosevelt's successor in the White House, who held a much narrower view of presidential authority, could foresee the necessity for weighing "the practical considerations that crowd upon one charged with executive responsibility...
...Shoestring. But Korea was (and is) a war to drive the airmen mad. It siphoned off eleven combat groups just when the Air Force was straining to build to the 70 groups which it then deemed necessary for minimum U.S. defense. In Korea air power was forbidden to strike enemy supply dumps across the Yalu or to strike at the menacing buildup of enemy planes and bases. At the MacArthur hearings last year, Vandenberg stepped lightly around the MacArthur issue. But he managed to strike another solid blow for air power...