Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this way monotheism led Mohammed to ethics. Like the Jews, he interpreted the First Commandment so strictly that Moslems were forbidden to make any kind of picture or "image," and the ban holds today. He forbade the use of alcohol, and the majority of Moslems have obeyed this prohibition through the centuries. (Today, most well-to-do Moslems who have social contact with Westerners do drink.) Mohammed sternly forbade sexual promiscuity, but for males this was greatly modified by permitting men to have as many as four wives, to divorce them at will, and to keep concubines in addition...
...Forbidden Texts. François Rabelais was born in Touraine around 1495, the son of a country lawyer. He was placed, in early youth, as a novice in a Franciscan monastery, and later he was ordained a priest. A crack student, François soon got his hands on some forbidden Greek texts. Enraged, the good brothers snatched his books away. Outraged, François pulled strings and had himself transferred to the cultured Benedictines, who encouraged the study of Greek...
Tough, able Sidney Holland invoked a set of emergency regulations. He used his powers sparingly, but in some instances suspended the right of assembly, public speech or public print. Newspapers and radio stations were forbidden to interview strikers. Other unions were not allowed to hold public discussions of the strike issues or on the emergency regulations. Anyone giving aid & comfort to strikers or their families was threatened with jail. But police did not lay a finger on the Red bosses...
...Prime Minister Malan hoped for Nazi victory in World War II, now disdains foreign opinion and despises Britain's liberal tradition. He is high priest of apartheid, which means "apartness"; social contact and intermarriage between racial groups is forbidden...
...Complete Boiler Plant. The apparatus also handles sabotage and espionage, spreading discontent, and setting off occasional riots among the West Germans. But its prime project is illegal trade-to use the U.S.-supported industrial economy of Western Germany as an arsenal for Communism. West Germans are forbidden to sell arms, munitions-making machinery and important strategic items to Red territory. But many West Germans have been skirting the ban. During the first six months of the Korean war, West German trade with Communist China jumped 2,700%; iron & steel exports to the Chinese Reds alone went from nearly zero...