Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Trade Commission has developed a slow burn over the claims of U.S. cigarette manufacturers. In two years, it has forbidden Old Golds to claim that they contain less nicotine, Camels that they aid digestion or relieve fatigue, Luckies that they are preferred by men who know tobacco best. Last week FTC turned its beady eye on Philip Morris, which advertises "no cigarette hangover" because its cigarettes are "definitely less irritating...
...Valentine, legendary perpetrator of the universal love-your-lover-day, might have found it was more trouble than it was worth as far as he was concerned, too. Under Emperor Claudius in the third century A.D., young men in the army were forbidden to marry since it sapped their strength. St. Val began marrying couples in secret, for which Claudius had him whipped and imprisoned. That's when the Saint began sending cards to his friends on every anniversary of his imprisonment...
...continuously: in speeches, reports, official investigations and persistent probing by the press. Not so in the case of the AEC. All definite figures about its performance-from laboratories and uranium mines to finished atom bombs-are beyond the reach of the public. The men who possess the facts are forbidden on pain of death (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) to communicate them. For all the taxpayer knows, the AEC may be dropping his money down a bottomless hole...
...looks rather impressive, set on the brink of a cliff in an almost uninhabited wilderness; but from the ground it looks like a suburban shopping center that has grown too fast. No one would guess from looking at the faces of its 12,500 inhabitants that in the forbidden "technical area" across a deep gulch, the most fearful weapons in the world are being designed...
...pointing fingers at the Roman Catholics for. The king of Sweden and all his ministers had te be members of the Church of Sweden,* all citizens had to pay taxes for its support, and no one could leave it officially except to join another Christian church. Roman Catholics were forbidden to set up monasteries or convents...