Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days," sighed Athens Tavernkeeper Costa Pandelidis, "elections were elections. There were free drinks. There were bands and songs and dancing. There was bloodshed. The walls were plastered with pictures of candidates. This year the government has forbidden posters and forbidden outdoor meetings. This is not an election; this is nothing but rice pudding...
...skies of Korea roared a force of B293 to plaster the once-untouchable North Korean port of Rashin "(see WAR IN ASIA). Throughout the period of his command, MacArthur urged the bombing of Rashin. On Aug. 12, 1950 he did bomb it, but further attacks on Rashin were forbidden by Washington. "It was a question of the risk involved," Secretary Marshall explained later, "in an operation so close to the Soviet frontier...
Rashin had not been hit by U.N. planes for more than a year. Since Aug. 12, 1950 Rashin had been forbidden to U.N. flyers because it is only 17 miles from the narrow strip of Soviet-Korean frontier (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Rashin had grown fat on its year of immunity...
...last week, the U.S. Government was thinking of taking away what it had given. In Manhattan's granite-columned Bar Association Building, an advisory panel of the Salary Stabilization Board held hearings to determine whether stock options are inflationary, and can therefore be forbidden under the Defense Production...
...patients whose ulcers are still active, there are such conventional horrors as poached eggs and milk toast. But for quiescent ulcers, there is a wide range, from broiled beefsteak, boiled lobster, venison and wild duck to cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Still on the forbidden list (along with strong drinks): pork, nuts, baked beans, clams, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, radishes and cucumbers...