Word: forbidden
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Actually, it is a simple matter of warning night drivers of what is to come. There should be a sign, embedded with glass beads, announcing that DeWolf Street is forbidden to those driving on Memorial Drive, and another sign announcing the curve west in the Drive itself. And there should be a row of posts, all equipped with those little beads, informing drivers of the dangers lurking in a fast turn onto Plympton Street...
When Redmond Burke was a student at the University of Illinois, he had some spiritual troubles over his required reading. As a Roman Catholic, he knew that he was forbidden, under pain of sin, to read books listed in the Vatican's Index Librorum Prohibitorum-the index of forbidden books. But like most Catholics (and non-Catholics) he had only a dim notion of how the church's book censorship operated and what, exactly, it forbade...
...waged war against books that might damage the faith or morals of its communicants. Pope Pius IV issued the first Index in 1564. A Congregation of the Index was established at the Vatican seven years later, with the sole job of judging what books were dangerous enough to be forbidden...
Even so, there will still be some rather choice amenities for the conquerors. The U.S. Army intends to hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
Last week Socony, the only U.S. producer in Egypt, gave that government a lesson of the same sort. Socony, which is producing 11,000 barrels of crude daily on the Sinai Peninsula, also maintained a branch to hunt for more oil, which Egypt needs. But Egypt has forbidden any new oil leases to foreign companies unless they are 51% owned by Egyptian nationals. Rather than set up a new company, Socony stopped drilling in Egypt...